Nikos Palavitsinis

Nikos Palavitsinis has a BSc in Management Information Systems from the department of Management Science & Technology, from the Athens University of Economics & Business. He also holds a MSc in Geographical Information Systems from the Agricultural University of Athens. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Informatics department of the University of Alcala de Henares in Madrid, Spain.

Nikos' main field of research includes metadata, and more specifically looking into topics of metadata quality in digital repositories. Some publications can be found on Mendeley and his personal website, whereas some presentations of these publications in conferences, can be found on Slideshare. He has also been involved in the organization committee of the Metadata & Semantics Research Conference for the three years running (MTSR 2009, MTSR 2010, MTSR 2011). 

Nikos has served as an assistant project manager in the eContentplus initiative Organic.Edunet, for 2 years and has also worked in Leonardo da Vinci, Transfer of Innovation, Organic.Balkanet project. He is currently serving as a member of the expert team consulting the coordination of the CIP PSP Natural Europe. 

In addition, Nikos has served as a local organizer in the 7th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning (JESS 2011) that was organized in Chania, Crete, Greece, on May-June 2011. He also served as a program chair and local organizer for the POLITICS Spring School that took place in Chania, Crete, Greece, on April 2011. In October 2010, Nikos organized an e-Conference on topics related to Learning Repositories in Agriculture, Food & Environment. It was hosted on the
e-Agriculture platform and is archived here!

Related to other activities, he is currently the president of the Alumni Association for the Dept. of Management Science & Technology of Athens University of Economics & Business. He has also served as vice-president in 2010.