Prof. Georgios Evangelidis is a Professor at the Department of Applied Informatics, School of Information Sciences, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. He has been the Director of the Software and Data Engineering Laboratory of the Department since 2016. His research interests and published work (about 140 papers and book chapters) are in the area of Data and Information Management. He has been a coordinator and/or participant in more than 20 Greek government and EU funded research and development projects.