Introducing Dionysis Athanasopoulos to the ICT Graduate School

Name? Dionysis Athanasopoulos.

Born in? Greece.

Education? I received my PhD from the Computer Science & Engineering department of the University of Ioannina in Greece in 2014.

Work? Previously, I worked as a Post-Doc researcher in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano in Italy. During my MSc and PhD studies, I worked as an R&D Software Engineer on several large-scale research projects (e.g., EU-funded FP7 ICT IP projects, ‘CHOReOS’ and 'SeaClouds'). I have also taught at several technological institutes and high schools.

Position at VUW? Lecturer in Software Engineering for the ICT Graduate School.

Key research interests?

• Software engineering, esp., maintenance (software refactoring)
• Service-oriented & object-oriented architectures
• Data engineering, esp., service & schema matching
• Green-aware engineering of service-oriented software
• Software-as-a-Service architectural model on the cloud
• Software design principles & patterns.

Why Wellington? Because it is one of the most lively capital cities in the world and Victoria University is among the top universities worldwide.

Favourite movie? Good Will Hunting.

Favourite musician? Andrea Bocelli.

Favourite food? Grand tortellini al tartufo – tortellini with truffles!