Research

Empowering spatial thinking of students with visual impairment Empowering spatial thinking of students with visual impairment, Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practices (2017-2019)

GI-N2K

“Geographic Information: Need to Know (GI-N2K): towards a more demand-driven geospatial workforce education/training system”, LLP Erasmus, Jean Monnet, by the European Commission, (2013 – 2016)

GEOTHNK

GEOTHNK: Semantic pathways for building a spatially-thinking society, LLP Centralized, European Commission, (2013 – 2015)

Geocrowd

“Geocrowd – “Creating a Geospatial Knowledge World”, IΤΝ under FP7 - People Marie Curie Actions, European Commission, (2010 – 2014).

Development of a Spatial Database for the Organization of Local Government Organizations with settlements for scale 1:50,000, National Statistical Service of Greece (2008-2009)

Development of a Methodology for the Integration of Different Geographic Ontologies, Archimedes Basic Research Program, NTUA (2000-2002)

Research Interests

GIScience:

Geospatial Semantics
Geospatial Ontologies
Geo-ontology integration
Geospatial Concepts
Cognitive and linguistics aspects of geospatial information
Geospatial thinking
Geospatial knowledge representation (conceptual structures and tools)
Semantic Interoperability
Geospatial education

Cartography:

Thematic Cartography
Web Cartography
Cybercartography
Multimodal Geovisualizations