I completed my undergraduate studies in the
Department of Informatics
(Computer Science and Telecommunications) of the
National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens, located in my hometown of
Athens,
Greece.
I was a member of the founding class of that department.
In 1991, I joined the Ph.D. program of the
Department of Computer Science
of SUNY at
Stony Brook,
U.S.A. from which I obtained my M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1994 and 1996,
respectively.
My Ph.D. thesis titled:
was done under the supervision of my advisor David S. Warren.
Starting September 1996, I returned to Europe and joined as a
visiting research scientist the
Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence Group of
the Department of
Computer Science of the Catholic University of Leuven in
Leuven, Belgium. I stayed
for 2.5 years there working mainly with Bart Demoen and I
absolutely enjoyed every minute of it (besides Bart, the Belgian
beers helped in this a bit too, I suppose :-).
Since March 1999, I am an associate professor (Docent, Senior
Lecturer) in the Department of
Information Technology
(Computing Science
Division) of Uppsala University
in Uppsala,
Sweden.
Ever since I came to Uppsala, I have been leading the research conducted in the context of the HiPE (High Performance Erlang) project and associated group.
During the period November 2000 – June 2002, I was the head of the Computer Science Division. Since the beginning of 2004, I have been the director of the ASTEC (Advanced Software TEChnology) competence center.