George Iliopoulos is an Associate Professor of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy in the Department of Geology, University of Patras. He received his B.Sc. degree in Geology in 1996 from the University of Athens, Greece and his Ph.D. in Palaeontology in 2004 from the University of Leicester, UK. He worked as a Lecturer of Paleontology in the Biology Department and as Assistant Curator of paleontological collections in the Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete (2005–2010). He has been teaching Paleontology and Stratigraphy in the Department of Geology, University of Patras, since 2010. His main research interest is the study of Late Cenozoic vertebrates and terrestrial paleoenvironments. In the last 15 years, he has also been involved in micropaleontological research projects studying transitional marine environments and the biostratigraphy of Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic carbonate sequences. He has published more than 45 papers in international journals. He is a member of the Paleontological Association.