Dr. Christos Vasilakos
 

Dr. Christos Vasilakos is a member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean. He is an Environmental Scientist and holds a Ph.D. in Fire Risk Assessment with GIS, Remote Sensing and Neural Networks. He has been teaching courses on Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics and Environmental Hazards at the Departments of Geography, Environmental Studies, and Environmental Cartography. He has participated in 8 research projects as a research scientist, while his research resulted in 18 publications in international and Greek scientific journals and conference proceedings. He has collaborated with the National Agricultural Research Foundation and National Observatory of Athens and he worked as a visiting scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Germany and at Carlos III University of Madrid, Dept. of Computer Science in Spain. His research interests include Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, Forest Fires, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing / HPC , Parallel Processing and Decision Support Systems.

Dr. Olga Roussou  

Olga Roussou is a member of Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean. She has a B.Sc. degree in Environmental Studies and a M.Sc. degree in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of the Aegean. As a member of the GoND lab since 2002, she has been involved as researcher in national and EU-funded research projects on forest fires. Due to her participation in research projects, she has also a wide experience in project management. Her research interests include forest fuels, fire behavior modeling, 3D visualization, forest fire simulation, landscape fire management and spatial analysis.

Dr. Nikos Athanasis  

Dr. Palaiologos Palaiologou  

Dr. Palaiologos Palaiologou is a Geographer with a Ph.D. in Applied Geo-Informatics in Natural Environment and Hazards Management from the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece, focusing on simulating wildfire behaviour, assessing fire effects with remote sensing and spatial analysis tools, and the use of applied forestry to map forest structure and land cover types. He holds a B.Sc. diploma in Geography and a M.Sc. in "Geography and Applied Geo-Informatics", both from the University of the Aegean, Department of Geography. His research interests include fire effects assessment, landscape vegetation management and wildfire risk reduction, climate change and wildfires, coupled human and natural systems in fire-prone landscapes, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for forestry applications, renewable energy sources, remote automatic weather stations, and WebGIS. As a member of the Geography of Natural Disasters lab of the Department of Geography since 2005, he has been involved as research assistant in a number of national and EU-funded research projects on Geo-Informatics, natural disasters, integration of new technologies into disaster risk management, and remote sensing. During his Ph.D., he was an Assistant Instructor on undergraduate and graduate courses of the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean from 2008 until 2014. During 2016-2018, he lived in the USA, working as a visiting scholar for the International Visitor Program of the US Forest Service, invited by Dr. Alan A. Ager, in collaboration with Portland State University and Oregon State University. Currently, he is a post-doc with the University of the Aegean, working in national and US funded projects and teaching three undergraduate level courses as Assistant Instructor.