Dr. Phaedon Kyriakidis is a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), as well as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Geography of the University California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and at the Department of Geography of San Diego State University (SDSU), both in the USA. He is currently the Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology at CUT, and a former Chair (2016-2017) of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics at CUT. Dr. Kyriakidis was on the Faculty of the Department of Geography at UCSB -- Assistant Professor (2001-2005), Associate Professor (2005-2012) and Full Professor (2012-2015), as well as a Professor of Spatial Analysis (2009-2015) at the Department of Geography of the University of the Aegean in Greece. He obtained his BSc (1994) from the Department of Geology of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, his PhD (1999) from the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences of Stanford University, USA, with specialization Geostatistics in the Earth Sciences, and worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1999-2000) at the Earth Sciences Division of Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, where he also held a Faculty Staff appointment (2001-2013).

Dr. Kyriakidis’s research interests include geostatistics, geocomputation, and geoinformatics, as well as their applications to GIS and remote sensing, earth, atmospheric and environmental sciences, as well as public health and archaeology. He has co-authored more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, as well as numerous contributions in conference proceedings and edited volumes. He has co-authored (with Prof. Andre Journel) the book entitled “Evaluation of Mineral Reserves: A Simulation Approach”, published in 2004 by Oxford University Press. He has received a best full paper award (with Rui Zhu and Krzysztof Janowicz from UCSB) for his 2017 AGILE conference paper ”Beyond pairs: Generalizing the geo-dipole for quantifying spatial patterns in geographic fields”, a best paper award in the journal Mathematical Geosciences for his 2013 publication (with Petros Gaganis from the University of the Aegean) on efficient simulation of (log)normal random fields for hydrogeological applications, as well as a best paper award for his 2010 conference publication on geostatistical regression for areal data at the 9th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. He has also been an invited keynote speaker at the 7th International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, Southampton, UK (2008), and the 7th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal (2006). His research has been funded mostly by the US National Science Foundation, NASA, NOAA, the Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology, as well as (more recently) by the European Commission. He is the Principal Investigator on a recent (2017) H2020 “Teaming for Excellence” Phase 1 project (acronym MedSTACH) aiming at creating an Eastern Mediterranean Science and Technology Center of Excellence in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage; see medstach.eu for more information.

Dr. Kyriakidis has served on the Scientific Committees of numerous international conferences and has reviewed manuscripts and proposals for a wide spectrum of scientific journals and international funding agencies, respectively. He is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of Cartographica (since 2018), and of Spatial Statistics (since 2012). He has served as an Associate Editor for Geographical Analysis (2014-2107), a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2007-2017), as well as a Board Member of the Hellenic Geographic Information Systems Society (2015-2016). Last, he co-edited (with Prof. Stefanakis and Prof. Liu) the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2015 special issue “Advances in Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis and Mining”.