Mr. Thomas Mone holds a Diploma of Spatial Planning and Development from the Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece and a Master’s Degree in Governance and Regional Development. His research interests mainly focus on regional development, population geography and demography, data analysis, regional policy and disparities. He is a research assistant at the Laboratory of Geoinformatics in the department of Spatial Planning and Development Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.