Affiliated Faculty

Christos Nikolopoulos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Hellenic Mediterranean University in addition to a long-standing affiliation as a Research Associate in Wireless & LongDistance Communication Lab., Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. Also, past positions include the EMC Consultant services at EMTech SPACE P.C. to various projects of ESA’s ITT.

Panagiotis Partsinevelos is a Professor in the fields of Geoinformatics and Unmanned Systems and Director of the Laboratory of Geodesy and Informatics of Geosciences at the School of Mineral Resources Engineering of the Technical University of Crete. He received his PhD from the Spatial Informatics Engineering Department at the University of Maine, part of the US National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) and the NASA Center of Excellence for Satellite Remote Sensing. He holds a Dipl. Eng.

Professor Epaminondas Voutsas is the Director of the Laboratory of Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena at the School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens. His research activity focuses on, among other areas: (a) modeling, simulation, scaling up, and optimization of processes; (b) CO2 capture and utilization for the production of eFuels and other chemicals; (c) modeling and simulation of natural gas processes; and (d) thermodynamic and fluid dynamic analysis of hydrogen injection in natural gas pipelines.

Dr. Vakalas Ioannis is a geologist who has worked in various fields, such as sedimentology, petroleum geology, hydrogeology, soil & rock mechanics, for over 20 years. He has worked as a sub-contractor for major energy companies in Greece such as Energean Oil and Gas, Repsol, Hellenic Petroleum Upstream, Hellenic Hydrocarbons, and Energy Resources Management Company. During his tenure, he has supervised several oil & gas exploration projects.

Mr. Dimitris Marinakis holds an Assistant Professor position in Petroleum Production Engineering at the Department of Mineral Resources Engineering of the University of Western Macedonia.

Anastasios Tselepides is a Biological Oceanographer and a Professor at the Biology Department of the University of Crete. For many years (2006-2022) he was a Professor at the Department of Maritime Studies of the University of Piraeus. Prior to that (1993-2006) he was a Senior Researcher and a Research Director, as well as the leader of the Oceanography Department of the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (IMBC) that evolved into the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Crete (HCMR-Crete).

Dr E. Steiakakis acquired a Bachelor Degree in Geology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a MSc Degree in Engineering Geology from the Leeds University.

Nikos Pasadakis is Professor at the School of Mineral Resources Engineering of the Technical University of Crete. He served as Director of the Institute of GeoEnergy (IG) [former Institute of Petroleum Research (IPR)] of FORTH from its establishment (2019) up to 2023.