Apostolos PapadopoulosApostolos N. Papadopoulos was born in Eleftheroupolis, Greece in 1971. He received his 5-year Diploma degree in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras and his PhD degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1994 an 2000 respectively. He has published several research papers in journals and proceedings of international conferences. From March 1998 to August 1998 he was a visitor researcher at INRIA research center in Paris in order to perform research in benchmarking issues for spatial databases. Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Informatics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a member of the Greek Computer Society and the Technical Chamber of Greece. His research interests include spatial and spatiotemporal databases, data stream processing, parallel and distributed databases, data mining, physical database design. Read More Read Less