Dr. Efstratios Stylianidis is a Professor at the School of Spatial Planning and Development of the Aristotle University, Greece, where he leads the Laboratory of Geoinformatics (LabGeo). His research focuses on the intersection of Geospatial Sciences and ICT for the benefit of natural and built environment. He is the author of 2 theses, 1 book, 75 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences proceedings, 8 invited chapters in books as well as the editor of 2 books. He has participated in more than 47 national and mainly international research projects (H2020, FP7, Erasmus+, etc.), 8 of which as the scientific and project coordinator. He has participated in 52 national and international conferences, while in 26 he has a member of the organizing and/or scientific committee. He is a reviewer in 16 scientific journals, while he participates in the editorial board of 3 scientific journals. In 2017, he received the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2017 award (Madrid Challenge) for the H2020 EU co-funded LARA project. He was a visiting Professor at Columbia University (2018), while as an invited speaker he gave lectures at Columbia University, Princeton University, and University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).