• 1999: Participation in organizing the Conference with the title Balanced Development of European Regions: Perspectives of the Central Macedonia organized in Thessaloniki by the Technical Chambers of Greece, Central Macedonia Branch
• 2001: Secretary of the Organizing Committee and member of the Scientific Committee of the International Symposium on Urban and regional regeneration organized in Thessaloniki by the Urban & Regional Planning Section of the Department of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Planning and Environment Research Group of the Royal Geographic Society with the Institute of British Geographers.
• 2003: Participation in organizing the conference with the title Halkidiki 2003: Planning and Development. Limitations and Perspectives organized in Polygyros, Halkidiki, by the Technical Chambers of Greece, Central Macedonia Branch.
• 2009-2018: Member of the Scientific Committee and judge of papers submitted to the
  •  2nd PanHellenic Congress of Town and Regional Planning and Regional Development (Volos 2009),
  • 1st PanHellenic Conference on Place Marketing & Branding (Volos 2012),
  • 3rd PanHellenic Congress of Town and Regional Planning and Regional Development (Volos 2012), International Conference on “Changing Cities”: Spatial, morphological, formal & socio-economic dimensions (Skiathos 2013),
  • 2nd International Conference on “Changing Cities”: Spatial, morphological, formal & socio-economic dimensions (Porto Heli, Peloponnese, 2015),
  • 4rth PanHellenic Congress of Town and Regional Planning and Regional Development (Volos 2015),
  • 2nd PanHellenic Conference on Place Marketing & Branding (Larisa, 2017),
  • 5th PanHellenic Congress of Town and Regional Planning and Regional Development (Volos 2018).

2014, July 9-12. AESOP Annual Congress 2014, Utrecht/Delft, The Netherlands. Invited panelist, in the panel discussion with the title Post-disaster Territory. Panelists had been asked to prepare 5 min. presentations. Mine had the title Three Critical points in the evolution of the urban system of Greece.

1985: First prize, with M. Fryssas and E. Fotopoulou, in the Competition, organized and sponsored by the Kissos Technical S.A., for Ideas for a New Settlement for 3,500 permanent inhabitants on a 200-hectare Site in Isenli, near Hortiatis, Greece.

Architectural works (private residences, one residential complex) and town planning projects (see below), self-employed.

1987-88 and 1988-89: Teaching position, as ‘Special Scientist’, Department of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

1999-2000 until April 2008: Teaching position (Decree 407/ 1980), Department of Planning and Development, University of Thessaly.

2006-7 and 2007-8: Teaching position (Decree 407/ 1980), Department of Planning and Development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Veria.

Assistant professor, Department of Planning and Development, University of Thessaly since April 2008; Associate professor since March 2017.

• 1982-83: Assistant Researcher in the research project Industrialization, Regional Labour Market and Productive Investments by home-coming emigrants: The Thrace paradigm, sponsored by the Stiftung Volkswagenwerk Foundation and supervised by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Scientifically responsible were professors A. Ph. Lagopoulos and C. Lienau (Institute of Geography, Munster, F. R. of Germany)
• 1984-85:  Assistant Researcher in the research project Manufacturing Industry in Thessaloniki: Locational and Branch Analysis, coordinated by prof. A. Ph. Lagopoulos and sponsored by the Ministry of Regional Planning and the Research Committee of the Aristotle University.
• 1985-86: Assistant Researcher in the project Sports Research: Indices and Standards, coordinated by prof. A. Ph. Lagopoulos and sponsored by the Under-Ministry of Young Generation and Sports
• 1985-87: Assistant Researcher in the project The Social Image and Perception of Regional Space in Greece, coordinated by prof. A. Ph. Lagopoulos and sponsored by the General Secretariat of Research and Technology and the Technical Chambers of Greece, Central Macedonia Branch.
• 1993, August- November: Senior Researcher in the Research Project for the Economic and Spatial Development of the village of Archangelos, Northern Greece, sponsored by the Philceram – Johnson S.A. and carried out by the Laboratory of Morphology and the Laboratory of Town Planning of the Department of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
• When the project formally expired, the scientific team remained a consultant to the community.
• 1994, August – November: In the framework of the unitary effort for the development of Archangelos, research project titled Village or Archangelos, Northern Greece: Design of its Central Area, also sponsored by the Philceram – Johnson S.A. and carried out by the Laboratory of Morphology and the Laboratory of Town Planning of the Department of Architecture.
• 1997: Senior researcher in the second phase of the Research for the Delineation of the Potential Market for the Port of Thessaloniki. Marketing Strategy and Related Issues, sponsored by the Ministry of Merchant Marine and the Thessaloniki Port Authority. Scientifically responsible was A. Naniopoulos, assistant prof. at the time.
• 1998: Senior researcher in the research project Network of Unified Cultural Places: Regeneration of the Central Area of Elassona, commissioned by the Municipality of Elassona and carried out by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Scientifically responsible was prof. G. Kontaxakis.
• 1999-2000: Senior researcher in the research project Survey – Formation of a Spatial Organization Plan for the Municipality of Giannouli, commissioned by the Municipality of Giannouli and carried out by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Scientifically responsible was prof. G. Kontaxakis.
• 1999-2000: Senior researcher in the research project Assessment of the Development Potential of Central Public Spaces with Special Characteristics: The case of Falanni, commissioned by the Municipality of Giannouli and carried out by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Scientifically responsible was prof. G. Kontaxakis.
• January 200 – July 2002: Senior researcher in the research project Planning and Designing the Facilities of the Veterinary School of the Aristotle University in Kolhiko, Langadas, commissioned by the Research Committee of the Aristotle University and carried out by the Department of Architecture. Scientifically responsible was prof. A. Ph. Lagopoulos.
• 2006 – 2007: Participation in the research project Greenkeys – Urban Green as a Key for Sustainable Cities, sponsored in part be the Community Initiative INTERREG III B CADSES through the Research Committee of the University of Thessaly.
• 2006 – 2007: Participation in the research project EQUAL, Vocational / Social Support in Recycling – Hope for the Environment, sponsored by the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection and the European Union through the Research Committee of the University of Thessaly
• 2011-2013: Coordinator of the research project Research Perspectives and Listing of the Research Activities of the Department of Planning and Development, University of Thessaly, commissioned by the Research Committee of the University of Thessaly.

Other Projects / Studies

• 1983-1988: Member of the Town Planning Restructuring Operation Group 13/4, commissioned to produce the Revision and Expansion of the Town Plan of Giannitsa, Kariotissa and Kria Vrisi (scientifically responsible)
• 1989: Participation, as a member of the consulting team, in the team commissioned to produce the City of Serres Urban Regeneration Study.
• 1989-1993: Commissioned, with A. Poupi, to produce the Megali Volvi Plan (for the expansion and inner ‘city limit’ area).
• 1993-1994: Commissioned, with S. Gekousidou, to produce the Lagyna Plan (for the expansion and inner ‘city limit’ area).
• 1993-1995: Commissioned, with D. Mettas, to produce the Lofos Plan (for the expansion and inner ‘city limit’ area).
• 2000: Preparation of the Preliminary Plan for Efxeinos, a new village near Kolhiko, Langadas, proposed by the Mayor as a housing project to accommodate immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
• 1995-2006: Member of the group commissioned to produce the Village of Griva, Prefecture of Kilkis, Survey, Plan and Plan Implementation Study (with D. Vilouras, P. Andriotis and A. Tsitsiplamis).
• 2008-2009: Commissioned to produce the Plan for the Municipality of Narthakion, Prefecture of Larisa.

• Sustainable development and spatial reorganization in a Greek border village with the help of private capital (with E. P. Dimitriadis and A. –Ph. Lagopoulos) in Philip Kivell, Peter Roberts, Gordon Walker (eds) Environment, Planning and Land Use. Ashgate: Aldershot, Brookfield USA, Singapore, Sydney 1998, pp. 130-146. As eBook: Published 17 December 2018, eBook ISBN: 9780429457807, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429457807
• Post-war developments in the urban system of the prefecture of Kilkis, Northern Greece, (with E. P. Dimitriadis) in Dimitriadis E. P., Kousidonis Ch. Th., Lagopoulos A. Ph. (eds) Reconstruction of Declining and Destroyed Areas of Europe, Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2002, pp.: 107-124.
• Municipality of Yannouli 2000: Structural Interventions Plan (with E. P. Dimitriadis) in Oikonomou Costas (ed) Arcade: Honorary volume for prof. G. Kontaxakis, Thessaloniki: Aristotle University, Department of Architecture, 2006, pp.: 133-163 (in Greek).
• Thessaloniki and the International Trade Fair: A case of Conflict? in Yannis Psycharis, Pantoleon Skayannis (eds) The context, dynamics and planning of urban development: a collection of papers, Volos: University of Thessaly Press, 2008, pp. 161-181.
• The Rhetoric on the Production of Space in Greece and the Enchantment with the Higher-Rank Plan, in 25 Papers on Spatial Planning and Development, Collective Volume for the 20 years of the Department of Planning and Development, Volos: University of Thessaly Press, 2009, pp.: 195-214 (in Greek).
• Front page Layout: Space and its Production in the Front Pages in Dimitriadis E. P., Kafkalas G., Tsoukala K. (eds) Logos on Polis: Honorary Volume for professor A. Ph. Lagopoulos, Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2010, pp.: 317-325 (in Greek).
• Images, Words and Functions: On the Identity of Thessaloniki in Deffner Α., Karachalis N. (eds) Place Marketing & Branding. International practice and the Greek reality, Volos: University of Thessaly Press, 2012, pp.: 119-132 (in Greek).
• A Vision for the Greek Spatial Planning and the 1835 Decree on the Healthy Building of Towns and villages, in D. P. Drakoulis, G. P. Tsotsos (ed.) Historical Social and Town-planning Analysis of Space. Honorary Volume for professor Evangelos P. Dimitriadis.Stamou8lis Editions, Thessaloniki 2014 (in Greek with an abstract in English).

• Spatial-functional Analysis of the Greek Settlement System. City and Region, May-August 1983, nr 7: 41-78 (in Greek, with a summary in English).
• The Town Planning Profile of the Greek Ministry of Agriculture Settlements: A Redesigning Proposal based on Restructuring the Gridiron Plan. Technica Chronika: Scientific Journal of Technical Chambers of Greece, Scientific Area Α’, vol. 10, nr 2, April-June 1990, pp.: 167-187 (in Greek, with a summary in English).
• Public Open Spaces: Osmosis of Activities and Flexibility in Design. Technica Chronika: Scientific Journal of Technical Chambers of Greece, Series II (Architecture, Urban & Regional Planning), nr 1-2/2002, pp.: 35-47.

• A network of Local Rambler Trails in Southern Pindos. A proposition towards sustainable development of the Metsovo area (with G. Tsotsos anad E. Dimitriadis) in: D. Rokos (ed.) The National Technical University of Athens for Metsovo: Technology, Culture and Decentralisation, Athens M.I.R.C. of the N.T.U.A., 2001, pp.: 247-271 (in Greek with an abstract in English).
• Operational Competence as a Necessary Condition for Local Autonomy, in Getimis P. & Kafkalas G. (eds) Space and Environment: Globalization – Governance – Sustainability, Athens: periodical TOPOS and Institute for the Urban Environment and Human Potential of Panteion University, 2003, pp.: 249-264 (in Greek).
• Sustainability of a Mountainous local Centre: Rehabilitation of the central area of Elassona (with E. Dimitriadis) in D. Rokos (ed) The National Technical University of Athens for Metsovo: ‘The Integrated Development of Mountainous Areas. Theory and Practice’, Athens: Metsovion Interdisciplinary Research Center of the National Technical University of Athens, 2004, pp.: 701-724 (in Greek with an abstract in English).
• Elassona: Proposals for the Development of a Rural Regional Centre in Antonopoulos I., Lagopoulos A. Ph, Skayannis P. (eds) Pelion and Sustainable Development, Volos: University of Thessaly Press, 2004, pp.: 165:183 (in Greek).
• Thessaloniki and the International Trade Fair: A case of Conflict?, in 46th Congress of the European Regional science Association, ERSA 2006 Volos Greece, Book of Abstracts, University of Thessaly, Department of Planning & Regional Development, Volos 2006, p.: 185. http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/wiwwiwrsa/ersa06p588.htm, The full paper is accessible as ttp://www-sre.wu-wien.ac.at/ersa/ersaconfs/ersa06/papers/588.pdf
• Speak of Kokkino: (De-) Constructive Processes and Activities in the Countryside in Kotzamanis V., Koungolos A., Beriatos H., Oikonomou D., Petrakos G. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd PanHellenic Congress of Town and Regional Planning and Regional Development, Volos 24-27.09.2009, Volos: University of Thessaly Press, 2009, vol. Ι, pp.: 365-372 (in Greek).
• Thessaloniki as a node of spatial systems under transformation: From the 20th to the 21th century, in Beriatos E. Papageorgiou M. (eds) Regional Development- Urban Planning – Environment into the 21st Century: Greece – Mediterranean, Volos: University of Thessaly Press, 2010, σελ. 425-438 (in Greek).
• Front Page Planning, in Space is Luxury, 24th AESOP Annual Conference 2010, YTK Aalto University, Finland (Helsinki), July 7-10 2010, Book of Abstracts, pp. 383-384.
• The European influence on the rhetoric on spatial planning in Greece, in World Planning Schools Congress 2011. Planning’s Future-Futures Planning. Planning in an Era of Global (Un)Certainty and Transformation, 4-8 July 2011, Perth Convention Exhibition Centre, Perth, Western Australia. University of Western Australia (2011), CD-ROM 2011 (ISBN: 978-174052-237-3). Full Papers\Track 6- National, Regional & Local Planning Globalization\paper 323.
• Place Marketing and Invented Space (with A. Nikoli) in Adilenidou G., Goudini A., Kourti V., Bekiaridis V., Tarani V. (eds) PUBLIC SPACE. Public Space … In Search of, Thessaloniki: Technical Chambers of Greece, Central Macedonia Branch & Cannot Not Design Publications: 2011, Chapter Α6 (in Greek).
• Images, Words and Functions. The case of Thessaloniki, in 1st PanHellenic Conference on Place Marketing & Branding: Book of Abstracts, Volos 2012, p.: 53. Full text in the CD-ROM (ISBN 9789608849020) (in Greek)
• Flexibility, Efficiency and Consistency in spatial planning: The case of Greece in Murat Balamir, Melih Ersoy, Ela Babalik Sutcliffe (eds) AESOP 2012 – ABSTRACT E-BOOK, 05.07.2012, Ankara, Turkey (Abstract ID: 1092 – Oral).  (ISBN No: 978-975-429-306-7 http://www.arber.com.tr/aesop2012.org/abstractsebook/). The full paper is accessible at: www.arber.com.tr/aesop2012.org/arkakapi/cache/absfilAbstractSubmissionFullContent1092.doc
• Town planning Stereotypes and the Spatial Manifestations of the Crisis, (with A. Nikoli) in the 3nd PanHellenic Congress of Town and Regional Planning and Regional Development, 27-30 September 2012, Book of Abstracts Volos: University of Thessaly Press, and Thessaloniki: Grafima Publications, p. 71. Also in the CD-ROM with the abstracts (p. 71) and the full papers (Proceedings, pp.: 367-373), Volos: University of Thessaly Press, and Thessaloniki: Grafima Publications (ISBN: 978-960-9439-12-1, 978-960-6865-51-0) (in Greek)
• Changing urban Networks, Activities and the Role of Major Cities. Thessaloniki, Northern Greece, as a case study in Gospodini Aspa (ed) Proceedings of the International Conference on “Changing Cities”: Spatial, morphological, formal & socio-economic dimensions, 18-21 June 2013, Skiathos Island, Greece, Thessaloniki: Grafima, 2013, pp. 2131-2140 (CD-ROM, ISBN: 978-960-6865-65-7)
• Stagnation, Fragmentation, Reformation of the Spatial System. A Fuzzy Regression in Manolidis Κ. (ed) Conference on the Changes and Redefinitions of Space in Greek Crisis, 1-3.11.2013, Book of Abstracts, University of Thessaly, Department of Architecture, Volos, 2013, p. 43 and in:  Changes and Redefinitions of Space in Greek Crisis, Conference Proceedings, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos: University of Thessaly Press, 2013, pp.: 234-241 (CD-ROM, ISBN: 978-960-9439-26-8, in Greek)
• Tales of Resilience, Recovery and Planning. Thessaloniki, Greece, as a case study in From control to co-evolution. AESOP Annual Congress. 9-12 July 2014, Utrecht/Delft, The Netherlands, eBook of Abstracts, pp.: 429-30. (http://www.aesop2014.eu/).
• The Front Pages and the Production of Unauthorized Housing, in 4nd PanHellenic Congress of Town and Regional Planning and Regional Development, Department of Regional Planning & Development, University of Thessaly, Volos, 24-27 September 2015, University of Thessaly Press (CD-ROM, ISBN: 978-960-9439-37-4, in Greek).
• Local Development of the Settlements of the Municipality of Konitsa, Region of Epirus, with E. P. Dimitriadis  and D. Drakoulis, 8th Interdisciplinary Conference organized in Metsovo by N.T.U and the Metsovion Interdisciplinary Research Center of the National Technical University of Athens with the title The Comprehensive Development of the Mountainous and Geographically Isolated Areas.  http://mirc.ntua.gr/8th_conference/8th_conference_abstracts.pdf and http://mirc.ntua.gr/8th_conference/ergasies/43_DHMHTRIADHS_DRAKOULHS_KOYSIDONIS.pdf book of abstracts, p.61, and full text, respectively, in Greek)
• Semiotics, Social Class, and (unauthorized) Housing. Greece, 1970s to 2010s, abstract of the presentation at Making Space for Hope. AESOP Annual Congress 2018, July 10-14 (http://www.trippus.se/eventus/userfiles/101621.pdf).
• From the ‘Densely built-up areas’ to the ‘Residential clusters’: Narratives on Space, 1983-2018, 5nd PanHellenic Congress of Town and Regional Planning and Regional Development, held in Volos, Greece, September 27-30, University of Thessaly, Book of Abstracts, p. 145 (CD-ROM), and in Deffner A. D., Skayannis P., Rodakinias P, Psatha E. (eds) Deffner A. D., Skayannis P., Rodakinias P, Psatha E. (eds) Contemporary questions in Town & Regional Planning and Development: A collection of papers presented to the 5th Panhellenic Congress of Town and Regional Planning and Regional Development. Dept. of TPRD, University of Thessaly, 2019 (ISBN: 978-960-99226-6-1), pp. 554-564 (in Greek)
• Porsche Cayennes and other indices. Narratives on space and the Greek crisis, in AESOP Annual Congress. Planning for Transition. Venice, 9-13 July 2019. Book of Abstracts, p. 445 (https://www.aesop2019.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/AESOP-BOOK-OF-ABSTRACTS-2019.pdf).
• Porsche Cayennes and other material indices. Constructing narratives on the Greek membership to EU, in XII International Conference on Semiotics | Signs of Europe, 1-3.11.2019 Thessaloniki, Greece, Abstract Book pp. 25-26. (https://www.2019hellenic-semiotics.gr/images/Abstract_book__FINAL.pdf).
• Words, Connotations, Images and the Space of a City. Thessaloniki, Greece, as a case study, in 4th Annual Conference of International Place Branding Association – IPBA, IPBA 2019, November 27-29, Volos (Greece), Book of Abstracts, p. 87.

• The Administrative Organization of Epirus as an instrumental factor for sustainable development (with P. Stathakopoulos), in The Mountainous Space of the Balkans. International Conference, Konitsa, Greece, May 29-31 1998.
• The port of Thessaloniki on the threshold of the millennium: A radically evolving element of the city and its region (with E. P. Dimitriadis), in VIth International Planning and Research Group Conference with the title Local Economic Restructuring: Social and Environmental Impacts organized by the Planning and Environment Research Group of the Royal Geographic Society in the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, Brunel University, UK, June 27-10, 1999.
• The smell of place: Town planning and place identity, in ΧΙ International Conference on Semiotics, organized in Thessaloniki by the Hellenic Semiotics Society, October 14-16,2016, with the title The Fugue of the Five Senses: Semiotics of the Shifting Sensorium.
• Smell and taste: Images, words and synaesthesia, in 2nd PanHellenic Conference on Place Marketing & Branding organized in Larisa, Greece, by the University of Thessaly and the Municipality of Larisa, March 31 – April 1 2017 (in Greek)
•  Pawnshops and the Greek urban system: a short history of a booming phenomenon, in International Conference on “Changing Cities IV”: Spatial, morphological, formal & socio-economic dimensions, Chania, Crete, Greece, June 24-29, 2019.
• On Resilience in Town planning. The Words and the Concept, in 18th Scientific Symposium, on Crises, Hazards, Disasters in the era of climate change: The New Regularity, Argostoli, Chephalonia island, Greece, August1 & September 1, 2019.

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