Dr. Sotirios P. Christodoulou received his diploma degree from Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept of University of Patras, Greece in 1994. He earned his PhD on Web Engineering in 2004, from Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept of University of Patras, Greece. His is currently Assistant Professor at Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. in University of Peloponnese, member of Data and Media Lab (DML) and research fellow in Computer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus”. His recent research interests include: web engineering, performance optimization of web applications, web code quality, hypermedia, Web 2.0 technologies and semantic web. His research publications include more than 40 international journals, book chapters and international conferences, with over 340 non self-citations. 

Since 1994 he has participated in more than 17 European and National R&D projects in the fields of web engineering, hypermedia applications modelling /management, 3D and cultural applications, etc. Most projects combined applied research emphasizing on applying cutting-edge technologies to real-world problems and Information Systems of large-scale organizations. Dr. Christodoulou is ACM and IEEE professional member and he has participated in more than 20 committees of international journals and conferences. 

Since 2004 he has taught numerous courses at post-graduate and undergraduate level in 7 different universities, mostly in the area of programming languages, web engineering, software quality and data management. He is currently teaching the courses of Object Oriented Programming, Mobile App Development, Software Quality, Development of Web-based Systems at the undergraduate program (http://ece.uop.gr/) as also as Cloud Computing Technologies and Digital Skills for STEM Sciences at the postgraduate program (http://smart-ict.cied.teiwest.gr/).