Fotios S. Milienos is Assistant Professor in Applied Social Statistics and Quantitative Research Methods at the Department of Sociology of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece. During the last decade, he has been member of the research group of various research projects, and he is postdoctoral fellow under the "Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (IOF)" (2013-2016). He has published many papers in refereed journals, and a monograph with the publishing house Academic Press (Elsevier). He is member of the Editorial Board (as Associate Editor) of three journals published by Taylor & Francis, while he has also served as reviewer for 20 different journals published by Springer, Willey, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, and Sage, among others. His research interests lie in the theory of time-to-event models (cure models), sequential testing, pattern waiting times on sequences/matrices of discrete random variables, scan statistics, and applied data analysis from the social sciences.