He holds a Ph.D. (December 2003) and M.Sc. (May 2002) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut and a B.Sc. (June 1998) in Mathematics from the University of Cyprus. He has worked as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut, USA (1998-2003) and as a Visiting Lecturer (2004) and a Lecturer (2005-2008) at the University of Cyprus. His research interests span the Theory and Practice of Fault-tolerant Distributed and Parallel Computing. He has published in top journals and conference proceedings in his area of study and he has co-authored a book on Distributed Cooperative Computing. He served on Program Committees of top conferences in Distributed Computing and he is on the Steering Committee (2008-2010) of the International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC).