Dr. Marios Tzouvaras is the Research Coordinator of the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence, and a Researcher leading its Disaster Risk Reduction sector. Dr. Tzouvaras is also a Researcher and Special Scientist at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). He holds an MEng in Rural and Surveying Engineering (National Technical University of Athens, 2005), an MSc in Transport (Imperial College London/University College London, 2006), and a PhD in the exploitation of Earth Observation techniques for monitoring and assessing the impact of natural hazards on infrastructure resilience (CUT, 2020). His research interests are disaster risk reduction, SAR interferometry, coherent change detection, deformation monitoring, natural hazards monitoring, remote sensing, GIS for environmental surveillance, and transport planning/modeling. Dr. Tzouvaras has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal/conference papers (h-index: 8) and has reviewed over 50 journal papers. Last but not least, Dr. Tzouvaras is the Coordinator of the UN-SPIDER Cyprus Regional Support Office.
Dr. Chris Danezis holds a 5 y Dipl. Ing. in surveying engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), an M.Sc.in geoinformatics from the same university, and a Ph.D. in geomatic engineering
from the UCL Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, focused on satellite geodesy and navigation. Currently, he is an associate professor in geodesy at the Cyprus University of Technology Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics. He is the Department Chair, the director of the Laboratory of Geodesy, and the head of the Geoinformatics Cluster of the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence. Additionally, he is the coordinator of the CyCLOPS (Cyprus Continuously Operating Natural Hazards Monitoring and Prevention Systems) strategic research infrastructure. His scientific activity is mainly focused on the areas of geodesy, synthetic aperture radars (SARs), ubiquitous and collaborative positioning and navigation, GNSS augmentations, marine geodesy, GIS and location-based services.
