A native of Greece, he received his Ph.D. degree in Informatics (Computer Science) from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Michail has authored several publications in mainstream computer science and information science venues including CACM, IEEE TIFS, JASIST. His work is situated between the fields of Human–Computer Interaction and Social Computing, while his research interests revolve around emerging media design and development, social engineering, data mining and collaboration technologies.