Christos Doulkeridis is an Assistant Professor in the department of Digital Systems of University of Piraeus. He has been awarded an ERCIM “Allain Bensoussan” fellowship for post-doctoral studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2009. Prior to this, he received his Ph.D and MSc from the Athens University of Economics and Business in 2007 and 2003 respectively, and an Electrical and Computer Engineer degree from the National Technical University of Athens in 2001. He was the second winner of “Michael Dertouzos” competition on “IT with a human face” in the 14th World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT’04) in 2004. His research interests include “Big Data”, cloud data management, query processing, data management in peer-to-peer networks, distributed knowledge discovery, web data management, mobile and spatial databases. He has published in top international journals (incl. IEEE TKDE, IEEE J-SAC, ACM TKDD, Springer DPD) and conferences (incl. ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, PKDD, SIAM SDM) in the areas of data management, knowledge discovery and distributed systems.