Thanasis Vergoulis is a Principal Researcher at IMSI, Athena Research Center in Greece and the coordinator of the SciLake project. He has been involved in several EU and national ICT projects involving big data management, scholarly knowledge representation and management, scientometrics, research analytics, and bioinformatics. He has served as a member of the program or organising committee for several Computer Science conferences and workshops, and as a guest editor in special issues of well-established journals. He has been teaching courses in undergraduate and postgraduate levels in academic institutions in Greece and Cyprus.