Yannis Manolopoulos is Professor with the Department of Informatics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has been with the University of Toronto, the University of Maryland at College Park and the University of Cyprus. He has also served as Rector of the University of Western Macedonia in Greece, Head of his own department, and Vice-Chair of the Greek Computer Society. He has co-authored 5 monographs published by Kluwer and Springer, 8 textbooks in Greek, as well as ~300 journal and conference papers on Data Management. He received >8000 citations from >1200 distinct academic institutions and 2 best paper awards from ACM SIGMOD and ECML/PKDD conferences. He has also served as main co-organizer of several major fora, among others: ADBIS 2002, SSTD 2003, SSDBM 2004, ICEIS 2006, EANN 2007, ICANN 2010, AIAI 2012, WISE 2013, CAISE 2014, conferences. He has acted as evaluator for funding agencies in Austria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, EU, Hong-Kong, Georgia, Greece, Israel, Italy and Russia. Currently, he serves in the Editorial Board of The VLDB Journal, The World Wide Web Journal, The Computer Journal.