Yannis Tzitzikas is a Professor of Information Systems in the Computer Science Department at University of Crete and Affiliated Researcher of the Information Systems Laboratory at FORTH-ICS. His expertise lies in Information Systems, specifically in Knowledge Management and Information Retrieval. His research focuses on semantic data integration, exploratory search, and digital preservation. He has co-authored 3 books and more than 180 papers in refereed journals and conferences, he has received four best paper awards. He actively participates to EU projects and participates to the scientific committees of several international conferences and journals. Since 2005 he coordinates the Semantic Access and Retrieval group, and from 2019 also the Centre for Cultural Informatics of FORTH-ICS