Paraskevi Raftopoulou

Short Bio

Dr. Paraskevi Raftopoulou is Research and Teaching staff at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications and a member of the Software and Database Systems Laboratory (SoDa.Lab) at the University of the Peloponnese in Greece since August 2008. Since July 2011,she is also, acting as an External evaluator for the FET-Open ICT Research Proposals in FP7 at the European Commission. During the periods October 2007 - December 2007 and March 2008 - July 2008, she joined the Databases and Information Systems Department at Max-Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII) in Germany as a visiting researcher under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Weikum. 

Her research interests lie in the meeting of distributed systems and (big) data management, with extensions to social networks, data mining, databases, and digital libraries. Lately, she is also working on the application of the above research fields on anonymisation, smart cities, transportations, and smart agriculture domains. Since 2002 she has (co-) authored more than 25 papers in these fields. Most of them can be found here or (uncurated) at Google Scholar.

She received her BSc degree in Computer Science from University of Crete in 2000. In 2003 she received a MSc degree in Computer Engineering and in 2009 she received her PhD degree in Information Management, both from Technical University of Crete.