Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis is the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs and Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics of the Cyprus University of technology. He was the Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics. He has more than 300 publications in journals, conference proceedings and chapters in books in the field of remote sensing, space applications, geo-information and GIS for environmental surveillance /environmental monitoring, geomatics and civil engineering. His research group consisted of more than 35 researchers and is the largest group at the University. Since his appointment at the Cyprus University of Technology (2007), he participated in more than 40 research projects with funding sources from the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, H2020, FP6, FP7, Eureka, Life +, EC regional funds, Erasmus and national funds. Diofantos has been a coordinator of more than 15 research projects.