Dr. Dimosthenis Ioannidis (male) is a Senior Researcher Grade Β’ at CERTH. He received the Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering, the MSc. in Advanced Communication Systems and Engineering from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2000 and 2005 respectively, and his PhD with title «Privacy-aware human presence and movement analysis in controlled and uncontrolled environments», from the Faculty of Engineering department of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras in 2017. He has been a teaching assistant at ATEITH Thessaloniki (2006-2010), whereas he is currently Lecturer at AUTH’ Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programme program (blockchain technology course).

His main research interests include computer vision, stereoscopic image processing and signal analysis, linguistics algorithms, web services, semantics, visual analytics, smart grids & energy efficiency, IoT platforms development and security ecosystems including blockchain, as well as research in ethics and biometrics.

During the last five years, he has been the (co)author of more than 120 papers in refereed journals, edited books, and international conferences. He has served as a reviewer for several technical journals. He has also been involved in more than 30 research projects funded by the EC and the Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology, mainly involved as a leader of several WPs, where he had the supervision of large team of developers and technical teams. He is also currently acting as an Ethics evaluator of running projects executed under the auspices of EC, providing services such as monitoring of research activities performed in projects in respect to assigned ethics requirements. Services are related to the assessment of the human participation in real-life trials, privacy enhancing technologies used for the protection of personal data as well as other ethics issues that shall be tackled within a project lifetime (i.e. dual use, misuse and personal sensitive data).

Dr Ioannidis is currently the Coordinator of the D^2EPC, AMANDA, DELTA and DRIMPAC projects as well as the Scientific/Technical manager of the RECLAIM, iPRODUCE, SPEAR and MEISTER projects.