Dimosthenis Kyriazis is an Associate Professor at University of Piraeus (Department of Digital Systems). He received his diploma from the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2001 and his MSc degree in “Techno-economics” in 2004. Since 2007, he holds a PhD in the area of Service Oriented Architectures with a focus on quality aspects and workflow management. His expertise lies with service-based, distributed and heterogeneous systems. Before joining University of Piraeus, he was a Senior Research Engineer at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) of NTUA, having participated and coordinated several European-funded projects (e.g. BigDataStack, 5GTANGO, MATILDA, CrowdHEALTH, ORBIT, COSMOS, VISION Cloud, IRMOS, etc.) focusing his research on issues related to distributed computing architectures, data management and analytics, performance modelling, deployment and management of virtualized infrastructures and platforms.