Dr. Iraklis Varlamis is a professor at the Department of Informatics and Telematics at HUA in the area of data management. He holds a Ph.D. from Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, and an MSc in Information Systems Engineering from UMIST, UK. His research interests range from data mining and social network analytics to recommender systems for social media and real-world applications. He holds two patents from the Greek Patent Office for a crawling system for news sites and a system that thematically groups web documents using content and links. He is the scientific coordinator for HUA in several EU (H2020, ECSEL, REC) projects. He has a leading role in national projects in collaboration with researchers from other HUA departments and other universities.