Professor in Media Technology (digital sound and image management in electronic media), Dipl/Dr. Eng, Postdoc (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece). His current scientific interests include media technologies, audiovisual signal processing, machine learning, multimedia semantics, cross-media authentication, digital audio and audiovisual forensics. He is a member of IEEE, EURASIP and AES, and the editorial board of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (JAES) on the topics signal processing and semantic audio. He is the Secretary-General of the Hellenic Institute of Acoustics –Helina. He has participated in over thirty (30) national and international research projects and many respective scientific publications. He is a member of the Multidisciplinary Media & Mediated Communication (M3C) Research Group and participates in the initiative for the Greek media misinformation observatory. He is co-editor of the associated ACM proceedings and the JAES special issue(s) (2), Intelligent audio processing, Semantics, and interaction. He is also co-author of the recently published IGI book on Cross-Media Authentication and Verification: Emerging Research and Opportunities.