Short biography

Christos Tjortjis was born in Ioannina, Greece, where he completed his primary and secondary education. He was awarded a DEng(Hons) in Computer Engineering and Informatics (5 year studies) from the Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics at the University of Patras, and a BSc(Hons) in Law (4 year studies) from the Law School at the Democritus University of Thrace, in Greece. After completing his National Service (19 months), he gained industrial experience as a consultant working for Dodoni S.A. and for PETROGAZ S.A. He also gained academic experience working as a researcher on the EEC-CSF-II/EPET-II DIAVLOS project for the Department of Mathematics at the University of Ioannina.

He then moved to Manchester, UK for an MPhil in Computation at UMIST and subsequently a PhD in Informatics at the University of Manchester. He has worked as a researcher on the ESPRIT HYPERBANK project for UMIST, and as Research Associate to the Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof. P.J. Layzell. He was awarded an Honorary Lectureship in 2001, and was appointed to a Lectureship in 2002, with the Department of Computation, UMIST, which became the School of Informatics, University of Manchester in 2004. His appointment was later confirmed (granted tenure). He transferred to the School of Computer Science in 2006, where he worked until 2008. He then returned to Greece to an adjunct Senior Lectureship with the University of Western Macedonia, Dept. Engineering Informatics and Telecommunications and an adjunct Senior Lectureship with the University of Ioannina, Dept. of Computer Science, maintaining an honorary Lectureship with the School of Computer Science at Manchester. Christos also acts as External Moderator for the Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. Recentlly he was elected senior lecturer (assistant professor) in Decision Support and Knowledge Discovery systems at the International Hellenic University, School of Science and Technology.

He lead a number of research projects on software quality assurance using data mining, as well as on strategic maintenance and evolution of software. He was also involved as a principal investigator or co-investigator in a number of software and knowledge management projects. He has published over 40 papers in international referred journals and conferences and has been PC member in over 50 international conferences. He lead a team of PhD students and researchers in the areas of code, biological text and data mining.

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