Dr. Chris Danezis

Dr Chris Danezis holds a 5 y Dipl. Ing. in surveying engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), an M.Sc. in geoinformatics from the same university, and a Ph.D. in geomatic engineering from the UCL department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, focused on satellite geodesy and navigation. Currently, he is an assistant professor in geodesy at the Cyprus University of Technology department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics. He is the director of the Laboratory of Geodesy and the head of the Geoinformatics Cluster of the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence. Additionally, he is the coordinator of the CyCLOPS (Cyprus Continuously Operating Natural Hazards Monitoring and Prevention Systems) strategic research infrastructure unit. He was previously employed as a geodetic infrastructure executive by the Hellenic National Cadastre and Mapping Agency SA (NCMA) in the department responsible for the operation of the Hellenic National Permanent GPS/GNSS Reference Station (CORS) network. Furthermore, he was an appointed member of the Strategic Management Board for the restructuring and modernization of the company. His scientific activity is mainly focused on the areas of geodesy, synthetic aperture radars (SAR), ubiquitous and collaborative positioning and navigation, GNSS augmentations, marine geodesy, GIS and location-based services.