Athanasios Tsakalidis

Who is Athanasios Tsakalidis?

Athanasios K. Tsakalidis is a Greek computer scientist, from Katerini in northern Greece.

Although his first studies were in mathematics at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, he earned a second degree in Informatics at the University of Saarland, Germany. He earned his Master's from this University, along with a PhD in Computer science, with a thesis entitled "Some Results for the Dictionary Problem", which he completed under Professor Kurt Mehlhorn, director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

He returned to Greece after participating in research work for the DFG and professional teaching at the University of Saarland related to Data Structures, Graph Algorithms, Computational Geometry and programming. In Greece, he was given the chance to successfully back-up his work by becoming a professor at the University of Patras, where he is currently living and teaching. Since then, he has helped the general introduction of informatics to Greece, and is head of the faculty.

His research interests include: Data Structures, Graph Algorithms, Computational Geometry, GIS, Medical Informatics, Expert Systems, Databases, Multimedia, Information Retrieval, and Bioinformatics.