Prof. Paraskevi Fragopoulou received her B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Crete in 1989, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada in 1990 and 1995, respectively. Currently, she is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Hellenic Mediterranean University.  She is also an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH-ICS), as a member of the Distributed Computing Systems Laboratory. She performed research in several European Institutions such as the Ecole Normale Superieur de Lyon (ENS-Lyon), and the Danish Computer Center for Research and Education (UNI-C) where she was part of the parallel scientific computing group. Prof. Fragopoulou has co-authored more than 100 conference/journal papers and book chapters. She has served as a reviewer for several conferences/journals and on the program committee of several conferences. Her primary research interests are in the areas of Distributed Computing, Recommender Systems, Internet Technology, Internet Safety, and others. She has participated in several projects funded by the European Commission and by the Greek Government often as the technical coordinator.