Who We Are
Principal Investigator
Assist Professor Evangelos Markakis was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1980. He holds a PhD in P2P Constellations in Broadband Networks from the department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering of the University of the Aegean in 2014. He has actively participated in no less than 20 EU FP5/FP6/FP7/Horizon2020 funded projects (IST/ICT/Health/ Security) and over 20 Greek funded research and Development projects. His current research projects are H2020-FORTIKA (GA740690), H2020 – SMILE (GA740931) and H2020-SPHINX. Evangelos is the Dissemination Manager for the H2020 FORTIKA and in the past he has worked as the Technical Manager for the HORIZON 2020 DRS-19-2014 “EMYNOS”. He has more than 60 publications in international journals, conference, and workshop proceedings, in the above areas. He is the Chairman of the Pan-European Emergency Application Consortium paving the way for supporting Emergency Communication Application in all European Member States. He is a Senior Member in EENA a Member of IEEE and IEEE ComSoc, editor of the IET Book on “Cloud and Fog Computing in 5G Mobile Networks: Emerging Advances and Applications” and the Demonstrators Co-Chair for the IEEE SDN-NFV Conference.
Research Associates
Dimitra Papatsaroucha
Research Associate, M.Sc.
Dimitra Papatsaroucha has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics from the University of Thessaly (UTH), and an M.Sc in Informatics Engineering from the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU). She is currently working as an Associate Researcher in the R&D laboratory Pasiphae Lab of the HMU, acting as the Team Leader while also taking part in several EU-funded research projects, such as the HORIZON EUROPE CL4-DATA-2021-01-02 TRUSTEE project for which she is a member of the Technical Coordination Team. She is also a member of the Mataroa team of volunteers, acting as an Information Technology Instructor for the Coding Bees Programme that brings technology closer to women. Her research interests focus on human vulnerability assessment and risk assessment in cybersecurity, network intrusion detection systems, and user experience in emergency communications.
Xenofon Vourakis
research associate
Xenofon Vourakis has a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Crete (UOC). He is currently working as a Research Associate in the Pasiphae Lab R&D laboratory of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) and taking part in several EU-funded research projects. His main interests are full stack development, IoT and Cyber-Security.
Ioannis Kefaloukos
research associate, M.Sc.
Ioannis Kefaloukos has a M.Sc in Informatics Engineering from the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU). He is currently working as an Associate Researcher in the R&D laboratory Pasiphae Lab of the HMU, acting as the Deputy Project Lead in several EU-funded research projects, such as SPHINX H2020, SHAPES H2020, PQ-REACT, and COBALT. His research is mainly focused on network security and systems security on critical infrastructures, internet of things, SDN/NFV, and cloud/fog/edge computing technologies. He also led the cybersecurity effort for the Hellenic Mediterranean University back in 2019, while also acted as a TPC & Reviewer for the IEEE CAMAD and NFV-SDN 5GSecAI conferences.
Manos Rompogiannakis
research associate
Manos Rompogiannakis has a Bachelor of Engineering with Integrated Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete (TUC). He is currently working as an Associate Researcher in the R&D laboratory Pasiphae Lab of the HMU a member of the Back-end Development Team and DevOps Engineering Team, while taking part in several EU-funded research projects.
Konstantina Pityanou
research associate, M.Sc.
Konstantina Pityanou received her B.Sc. degree in Informatics Engineering – Software Engineering from Technological Educational Institute of Crete in 2019. In 2022 she received her M.Sc. degree in Informatics Engineering from the Hellenic Mediterranean University in Crete. She currently works as an Associate Researcher in the R&D Pasiphae Lab at the Hellenic Mediterranean University, and participates in EU-funded research projects, such as the 101070214 Eu-funded Research Project TRUSTEE and 101008701 Eu-funded Research Project Emerge.
Panagiotis Antivasis
research associate
Panagiotis Antivasis has a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Crete (UOC). He is currently working as a Research Associate in the Pasiphae Lab R&D laboratory of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) and taking part in several EU-funded research projects. His main interests are back-end development, Software Development, Signal Processing and Cyber-Security.PhD Candidates
Yannis Nikoloudakis
PhD Candidate
MSc Students
Evangelos-Polynikis Nikas
MSc Student
Evangelos-Polynikis Nikas has a B.Sc in Computer Engineering from the Technical Educational Institute of Heraklion. He is a M.Sc student in Informatics Engineering of Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) and is currently working in the R&D laboratory Pasiphae Lab of the HMU as a member of the DevOp.
Stamatis Kostopoulos
MSc Student
Stamatios Kostopoulos has a B.Sc in Informatics Engineering from the Technical Educational Institute of Heraklion. He is a M.Sc student in Informatics Engineering of Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) and is currently working as an Associate Researcher and Developer in the R&D laboratory Pasiphae Lab of the HMU.
Eleftheria Sfinarolaki
MSc Student
Eleftheria Sfinarolaki is a M.Sc. student in Informatics Engineering of Hellenic Mediterranean University, having a B.Sc. in Informatics Engineering of TEI of Crete. She is an Associate Researcher in the R&D laboratory , Pasiphae Lab of HMU.
Yannis Kazantzakis
MSc Student
Yannis Kazantzakis has a B.Sc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Crete (UOC). He is an M.Sc student in Informatics Engineering at Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) and is currently working at the Pasiphae Lab, the R&D laboratory of HMU, as an Associate Researcher.Undergraduates Students
Dimitrios Sigletos
Undergraduate
Ilias Papachristofilou
undergraduate
Erasmus & Intern Students
Fares Boudjaoui
Erasmus
Grigoris Pachis
Intern
Louis-Hadrien Denis
Erasmus
Administration and Financial Associates
Athena Bourdena
Post Doctoral
Alumni
Anargyros Sideris
George Alexiou
Nathan Guillomeau
Nikolaos Zotos
Steven Yin
Marios Sfendourakis
Enzo Leone
Dimitrios Kapouranis
George Mastorakis
Nikolaos Astyrakakis
Petros Anapliotis
Thomas Moniatte
Andreas Damanakis
Tristan Gabriel
Emmanouil Toutoudakis
Kalliopi Meladaki
Nikos Papachatzakis
Stylianos Klados
Vasilis Zontanos
Charis Papatsarouchas
Previous Principal Investigators
Evangelos Pallis
