Stelios Mertikas has been a full professor at the Dept. of Mineral Resources Engineering, Crete Technical University, Greece, since 2000 and the Laboratory Director at the Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering Lab, Dept. of Mineral Resources Engineering, Crete Technical University, since 2000. He was a Director of Graduate Studies, from 1997–2004, at the Dept. of Mineral Resources Engineering, Crete Technical University, Crete, Greece; an associate professor, from 1996–2000, at the Dept. of Mineral Resources Engineering, Crete Technical University, Greece; an assistant professor, from 1991–1996, at the Dept. of Mineral Resources Engineering, Crete Technical University, Greece; a visiting assistant professor, in 1991-Spring Term, at The University of Toronto, Department of Surveying Science, Canada, for 6 months; and a lecturer, in 1986, at the Surveying Engineering Department of the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He obtained a diploma in surveying engineering, June 1979, from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece; a master of science in engineering, surveying engineering, March 1983, from the Department of Surveying Engineering of the University of New Brunswick, Canada; a doctor of philosophy in surveying engineering, December 1988, from the Department of Surveying Engineering of the University of New Brunswick, Canada; and a Canada Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, 1993, at the Department of Surveying Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada.