He received his Ph.D. in 2011 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. He was a PostDoctoral Researcher - Marie Curie Fellow (ER) - for 2 years in Genoa, Italy (at Softeco Sismat S.r.l.). His research interests include: Semantic Data Management, Knowledge Bases and Decision Support Systems, Data/Information Analysis, Medical Informatics with emphasis on Computer Aided Diagnosis/Detection, Medical image analysis/processing and 3D visualization.

She is a Phonetician/Linguist (MA, PhD) and Educator (BA, PGDip). She has worked as an Adjunct Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) and at the University of Crete, and as a Researcher at the University of Reading (UK), the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and others. She has also served as a Primary School Teacher in mainstream and special education settings (2004-2017). Her research interests lie mainly in the field of Speech and Hearing Sciences, and especially in normal and disordered speech production and perception, as well as in language and pronunciation teaching using new technologies.