Research Interests

Personal Health Systems

Pervasive Mobile Monitoring, Wellbeing and Affective computing, Diseases prevention and management, Patient empowerment and self-care management

Internet of Medical Things

Wireless medical sensors technologies, Low power wireless lan technologies, mHealth, eHealth, Medical Sensors and medical devices, 5G mobile networks, Medical grade and delay tollerant networks

Biomedical Informatics and Engineering

Biosignal analysis, Personalized Computer Aided Diagnosis, Computational medicine

Security and trust

Security, Privacy and Trust, Biometrics and Access Control, Ethics and privacy by design

Telecommunication networks and theory

Wireless ad-hoc networks (Performance, Measurements, Analysis) Wireless interference channel and Information theory

eHealth and mHealth

Ambient e-health and m-health services, Public health, smart, Telemedicine and Hospital information systems, Smart Environments and Emergency medical systems

Research Projects

BorderUAS

BorderUAS project (Principal co-investigator), will implement and test a Semi-autonomous border surveillance platform combining next generation unmanned aerial vehicles with ultra-high-resolution multi-sensor surveillance payload (H2020-SU-BES02-2019), 01/06/2020 – 31/05/2023.

Panacea

Panacea project (Principal co-investigator), aims to deliver a complete cybersecurity toolkit providing a holistic approach for Health Care Institutions made up of a combination of technical (SW platforms for dynamic risk assessment, secure information sharing & security-by-design) and non-technical (procedures, governance models, people behaviour tools) elements.Protection and privAcy of hospital and health iNfrastructures with smArt Cyber sEcurity and cyber threat toolkit for dAta and people (H2020-SC1-FA-DTS-2018-1), 1/1/2019-31/12/2021.

Daphne

Daphne (Principal investigator/Coordinator), studies Resilient network services for critical mHealth applications, Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (ELIDEK) - 1st Call for proposals for research projects for the support of Post-doctoral Researchers, 22/08/2018 - 31/01/2022.

xVlepsis

xVlepsis project (Collaborating researcher), will implement and test an Advanced Monitoring System for Infants, (Operational Programme Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014-2020 (EPAnEK) approved by the European Commission), 31/07/2018-30/07/2021.

i-AMA

i-AMA project (Collaborating researcher), will implement and test a Brain-controlled navigation in real environments, (Operational Programme Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014-2020 (EPAnEK) approved by the European Commission), 09/07/2018-08/07/2021.

MyHealthAvatar

MyHealthAvatar project (Primary investigator,Technical Manager) demonstrated a 4D Digital Avatar Infrastructure for Access of Complete Patient Information to deliver clinical analysis, prediction, prevention and treatment tailored to the individual citizen.[FP7-ICT-2011.5.2 (600929)]

Reaction

REACTION project developed an integrated approach to improve long term management of diabetes, continuous blood glucose monitoring, clinical monitoring and intervention strategies, monitoring and predicting related disease indicators.[FP7-IP-No 248590]

SEARCHiN

SEARCHiN project (SEARCHing In a Networked world), combines methods from parallel and distributed computing, meta-data management, information retrieval, and the semantic Web in order to achieve the scientific and technological advances necessary to bring the simplicity and effectiveness of Web search right at the core of future global, network-centric computing systems. Marie Skłodowska-Curie TOK Action

euDomain

Research scientist, Development of a new, innovative European ambient intelligence service platform for automatic, context sensitive offering and contracting of mobile web services across heterogeneous networks. The eu-DOMAIN service platform will interconnect people, devices, buildings and content in an interoperable network, (FP6-2003-IST-2-2003-004420 003-004420).

SAFE

Research scientist, Satellites for Epidemiology and Health Early Warning, ESA Tender, 2006-2007 (Project Manager for FORTH-ICS, Organization of SAFE exercise in Crete, with participation of 20 organizations and 300 volunteers, investigating search and rescue and epidemiology scenarios in a Power plant and a hotel, as well as the outbreak of a epidemic in a refugee camp), (ESA AO/1-4914/05/F/IZ).

ATTRACT

Research scientist, Applications in Telemedicine taking rapid advantage of cable television network evolution to demonstrate how European health-care providers can offer cost-effective care to patients at home. The main outcome of ATTRACT work will be a set of broadband network applications providing low cost interactive health-care services at home very competitively. These applications will be based on existing and developing European Cable Television network infrastructures in order to provide all kind of users with affordable homecare services (EC DG XIII,5th Framework Programm R&D project,Telematics 2C).

HYGEIANET

Research scientist, Crete-A telematics center: to contribute to the development of Information Society at the Regional Level. It includes R&D in three application domains, culture, health and public administration. By building on the results of previous research and development projects of ICS-FORTH, the main objective of te project is to develop the technological infrastructure of the region, to deploy at a large scale advance multi-sectorial telematics applications and services, to evaluate their cost/benefit and cost effectiveness, and to contribute to the preparation of the Region for entering into the Information age(INTERREG II).

eHealth network

Research scientist, at the PHC of Santorini linking community offices in Anafi, Thirasia, Folegandros, Sikinos using eHealth records and medical collaboration services, 2003-2004 (National Project).

RemoteCare

Research scientist, Developing an innovative technological platform for providing remote telematic health services., (ESA AO/1-4914/05/F/IZ).