Dr Thomas Koutsos (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4035-7971) is Teaching Staff (E.DI.P. Special Laboratory Teaching Staff) in the Laboratory of Remote Sensing, Spectroscopy and GIS, Department of Hydraulics, Soil science and Agricultural Engineering, School of Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and National Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a B.Sc. in Geology, M.Sc. in Applied and Environmental Geology, and a Ph.D. in Geo-Informatics, and Geographical Information Systems.

His scientific interests lay in the fields of Geo-Informatics, Spatial Analysis, Geographical Information Systems, protection of the environment, management of environmental impacts and wastes, Data Visualization, and Spatial Statistics. He has also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Certification (M.S.C.E. + Internet) and expertise in SQL Programming, Crystal Reporting and Database Management.

Dr. Thomas Koutsos is scientific reviewer in more than 35 scientific Journals most of them with high Impact Factor. He has also more than 50 scientific publications, such as research articles in international journals of SCI, chapters in scientific books and series, posters and articles published at conference proceedings and workshops and he has been involved to at least 10 European co-funded projects