Michael Gr. Vassilakopoulos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1967. He received a 5-year Diploma of Engineering (1990) in Computer Eng. and Informatics from the Univ. of Patras and a Ph.D. (1995) in Computer Science from the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng. of the Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki. He followed post-doctoral studies at the Lab of Data Engineering of the Dept. of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has been awarded scholarships for undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral studies from the Scholarship Foundation of the Greek State. His Diploma thesis deals with Algorithms of Computational Geometry, his doctoral thesis deals with Spatial Databases and his post-doctoral research deals with Query Processing in Spatial Databases. Apart from the above, his research interests include Databases, Data Structures, Algorithms, Data Mining, Geographical Information Systems, Information Systems and Multimedia. He has participated in numerous RTD projects related to Databases, WWW and Information Systems. He has been with the Dept. of Applied Informatics of the Univ. of Macedonia, the Dept. of Informatics of the Aristotle Univ. of  Thessaloniki, the Dept. of Informatics of the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, the Hellenic Open University, the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering of the Univ. of Western Macedonia and the Dept. of Informatics with Applications on Biomedicine of the Univ. of Central Greece. For three years (2000-2002) he also served the Greek Public Administration as an Informatics Engineer where he participated in the evaluation and supervision of several Information Technology projects. During the ac. years 2002-2007 he was an Associate Professor and during the ac. year 2007-2008 a Professor of the Dept. of Informatics of the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki. During the ac. year 2004-2005 he was also the Vice Head of this department and during the ac. years 2004-2007 he was the Head of the Division of Computer Systems and Technology of this department. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Database Systems at the Dept. of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics of the university of Central Greece.