Dr. Konstantinos Giannoutakis is a Research Associate in the Information Technologies Institute of CERTH. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from University of Aegean, a M.Sc. in Computational Science from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, department on and Telecommunications, and Ph.D. in Computational Science from Democritus University of Thrace, department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include high performance computing, scientific computing, parallel systems, grid/cloud computing and semantic services. He has over 50 publications in journals, international conferences and books in the above research areas. He is also an adjunct professor in Helenic Open University (2010-2014).