Dr.Spyros Sioutas was born in Greece, in 1975. He graduated from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, School of Engineering, University of Patras, in December 1997. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degree from the same Department in 2000 and 2002 respectively. He is Associate Professor in Informatics Department of Ionian University from 2012 and Vice President of Research Committee of Ionian University from 2014. His current research interests include: Algorithmic Data Management, Spatio-Temporal Database Systems, Distributed Data Structures and P2P Overlays, Cloud Infrastructures, Indexing, Query Processing and Query Optimization. He has published over 150 papers in various scientific journals and refereed conferences (amongst others SIGMOD Record, Algorithmica, Theoretical Computer Science, Computer Journal, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Journal of Descrete Algorithms, Distributed and Parallel Databases, Journal of Systems and Software, Artificial Intelligence Review Journal, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Information Science, Neurocopmuting, ESA, ICALP, ISAAC, DEXA, PSD, SAC, AIAI, CIKM, MDM, PODC, ICDT/EDBT, ALGO, ALGOCLOUD, SODA, SIGMOD, SIGKDD e.t.c.) and he has more than 1100 citations. He was selected to attend as Postdoc Researcher the school on “massive data sets” in BRICS (Basic Research in Computer Science) department, University of Aarhus, Denmark, in 2002.  He was visiting researcher in Kings College, University of London (research domain: String Algorithmics and I/O complexity), in 2005. He was also visiting researcher in MADALGO (research domain: “Deterministic Data Structures over P2P Networks”), Aarhus, Denmark, in 2008. He has 18 years working experience as a Developer, Software Tester, Database Administrator and Project Manager at Computer Technology Institute (Research Unit 5) and serves as Director of ISD-Lab (http://isdlab.di.ionio.gr/index.php) since 2013.