Diofantos Hadjimitsis

Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis was the Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs of the Cyprus University of Technology with main duties for chairing the 'Quality Assurance', 'Research and Innovation' and 'Programme of Studies' of the whole university (1996-1999). He is a Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics. He was the Chair of the Department of Civil Eng. and Geomatics from 2011 to 2015. He is also the Head and founder of the Remote Sensing & Geo-Environment Lab. Diofantos is also the director of the 'ERATOSTHENES' Research Centre at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). He is the member of the National Experts appointed by the Cyprus Government for investigating the potential of Cyprus to join the European Space Agency (ESA) since 2009. He was appointed from the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation as a national delegate/contact point for the FP7 framework in the 'SPACE' theme since 2011. He has been nominated and elected as SPIE Senior member 2014 for his achievements in remote sensing. He is the Managing Director of the ERATOSTHENES CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE. He has significant experience in research projects that include remote sensing, GIS, field spectroscopy and geomatics (e.g. cultural heritage). He has more than 450 publications in journals, conference proceedings, and chapters in books and monographs in the field of remote sensing and GIS. He has supervised 13 PhD researchers and 160 bachelor and master final year projects and dissertations in the fields of remote sensing, GIS, surveying engineering and geomatics. He is the co-coordinator of MSc in Geo-informatics and Geospatial Technologies at CUT. He teaches remote sensing, earth observation modules and in the past. he has taught at the CUT several modules such as GEODESY I, GEODESY II, Construction Management I & II, Special Geoinformatics Summer Exercises (Geodesy & Remote Sensing) etc. His research group is the largest research group at the University. He has participated in more than 65 funded projects and since his appointment at the CUT (2007), participated in more than 55 research projects and coordinated over 25 research projects with funding sources from FP6, FP7, Horizon 2020, Interreg, ECHO, Eureka, Life , MED, Marie Curie, ERASMUS , COST, ESA, EC regional funds, national funds such as the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation (CRPF) and industry. He is the member of the editorial team of the 'Open Geosciences' and MDPI Remote Sensing, MPPI Heritage, MDPI Sensors etc. In addition, he was the Chair of the International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geo-information (co-organised by ESA and published by SPIE). He is the coordinator of the ‘EXCELSIOR’ H2020 Teaming Project (44 million euros) www.excelsior2020.eu