1999: Scholarship at the introductory exams of the school of architecture in AUTh.

2002-2003: Scholarship of the Technical Chambers of Greece for excellence in architectural studies in AUTh.

2003-2004: Scholarship of the Technical Chambers of Greece for excellence in architectural studies

2005: Awarded with 2nd Plaudit in the architectural competition for the “Proposal for architectural Intervention in the historical bridge of Pineios River, Larisa” (2005)

2007: Awarded with 3nd Award in the architectural competition for the “Design & Regeneration of The Park-Garden public area of Kilkis town”

2007: 2nd rank in the state exams of the Greek Scholarship Foundation at the field of “Human Geography” (1st runner-up for Scholarship)

2017: Scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece for 2-year individual research of the program “Financial assistance for Postdoc researchers – 1rst round, Workforce development, Education and continuing education”, 2014-2020.

2019: Scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece for 2-year individual research of the program “Financial assistance for Postdoc researchers – 2^nd round, Workforce development, Education and continuing education”, 2014-2020

Current Employment:

Assistant professor, Department of Planning & Regional Development University of Thessaly (UTh) – Greece.

Previous Employment:

Postdoctoral Researcher at FORTH, NTUA, Participation in Research programs in AUTH (2005, 2013), TUC (2020), Lecturer at Universities (TUC, NTUA, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education | 2016-2023), Freelance Architect (2004-2015), Teacher of Technical Seminars for Engineers (2010-2012), Engineer in Technical Service of Municipality of Peristeri (Athens) – Department of Studies and Implementation of Public Works).

Participation in scientific research programs as member of the Laboratory of Urban & Regional Planning, School of Architecture, Technical University of Crete, and in coordination of the Rural Observatory of Crete. Research on analyzing of historical building stock in urban areas, and pilot study for development in rural areas.

Participation in scientific research programs as postdoc researcher at the Foundation for Research & Technology) Institute of Applied & Computational Mathematics (IACM). Research on Spatial Metrics, Development of Urban Quality of Life indicators, Comparative Analysis of Urban Form and Land Use in EU cities, Improving Future Ecosystem benefits through Earth Observations.

Personal postdoctoral research in the Department of Geography and Regional Planning, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Research on “Coastal Urban sprawl in the Mediterranean: Geospatial methods for Land use Analysis and Sustainable Planning” (Supervisor: Ioannis Sayas) and “Typologies of urban sprawl in the Greek cities and the Mediterranean” (Supervisor: Anastasia Stratigea).

Lagarias A. (2023). Impervious Land Expansion as a control-parameter for Climate Resilient Planning in the Mediterranean Coast: Evidence from Greece. Land ()

Lagarias A., Stratigea, A., Theodora, Y. (2023). Overtourism as an Emerging Threat for Sustainable Island Communities – Exploring Indicative Examples from the South Aegean Region, Greece. In: Gervasi et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops. ICCSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14110. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37123-3_29\

Lagarias A. Stratigea A. (2023). Coastalization Patterns in the Mediterranean: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Coastal Urban Sprawl in Tourism Destination Areas, (GeoJournal, 88, 2529–2552 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-022-10756-8

Lagarias A., Stratigea, A. (2021). High-Resolution Spatial Data Analysis for Monitoring Urban Sprawl in Coastal Zones: A Case Study in Crete Island. In: Gervasi et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12958. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87016-4_6

Lagarias A., Zacharakis, I., Stratigea, A. (2022). Assessing Coastal Urban Sprawl and the “Linear City Model” in the Mediterranean – The Corinthian Bay Example. In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Misra, S., Rocha, A.M.A.C., Garau, C. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2022 Workshops. ICCSA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13378. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10562-3_31

Koutsi D., Lagarias A., Stratigea A. (2022). Evidence-Based Exploration as the Ground for Heritage-Led Pathways in Insular Territories: Case Study Greek Islands, Heritage, 5(3), 2746-2772; doi:10.3390/heritage5030143– (Impact Factor: 2.51).

Lagarias A., Zacharakis I., Stratigea A. (2022). Assessing the coastal vs hinterland divide by use of multitemporal data: Case study in Corinthia, Greece. European Journal of Geography, Vol. 13, Issue 2, pp. 001 – 026, https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.a.lag.13.2.001.026 (Impact Factor: 1.2).

Leka A., Lagarias A., Panagiotopoulou M., Stratigea A. (2021). Development of a Tourism Carrying Capacity Index (TCCI) for Sustainable Management of Coastal Areas in Mediterranean Islands – Case Study Naxos, Greece, Ocean and Coastal Management, 216 (2022) 105978, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105978) (Impact Factor: 3.284).

Santos, B.; Gonçalves, J.;Martins, A.M.; Pérez-Cano, M.T.;Mosquera-Adell, E.; Dimelli, D.; Lagarias, A.; Almeida, P.G. (2021). GIS in Architectural Teaching and Research: Planning and Heritage. Education Sciences 2021, 11, 307. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11060307 (Impact Factor: 0.453).

Lagarias A., Prastacos P. (2021). Fractal dimension of European cities: A comparison of the patterns of built-up areas in the urban core and the periurban ring, Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography, https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/37243

Lagarias A., Prastacos P. (2020). Comparing the urban form of South European cities using fractal dimensions”, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, vol.47 (7) https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808318820911

Lagarias A., Sayas J. (2019). Urban sprawl typologies in Mediterranean cities: A method based on spatial metrics, Regional and Urban Economics Review, Issue 4(2019), 5-41

Lagarias A., Sayas J. (2018). Urban sprawl in the Mediterranean: evidence from coastal medium-sized cities, Regional Science Inquiry, vol. 0 (3), 15-32

Lagarias A., Prastacos P. (2018). Using spatial metrics to asses urban sprawl in Nicosia. In: Patsavos & Pissourios (Εd) The Cypriot city paradigm: Urbanity issues in design and planning, CYPRUS ARCHITECTS ASSOCIATION, pp. 96-117.

Prastacos P., Lagarias A. and Chrysoulakis N. (2017). Using the Urban Atlas dataset for estimating spatial metrics. Methodology and application in urban areas of Greece, Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography, document 815, Online since 11 May 2017, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/28051 ; DOI : 10.4000/cybergeo.28051

Lafazani P., Lagarias A. (2016). Applying Multiple and Logistic Regression Models to investigate Periurban Processes in Thessaloniki, Greece, Geocarto International, Vol. 31, Issue 8, pp.927-942, DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2015.1094523

Lagarias A. (2015). Exploring land use policy scenarios with the use of a cellular automata-based model: urban sprawl containment and sustainable development in Thessaloniki. Geocarto International, Volume 30, Issue 9, 2015, pages 1033-1051, DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2015.1013066

Lagarias Α. (2012). Urban sprawl simulation linking macro-scale processes to micro-dynamics through cellular automata, an application in Thessaloniki, Greece, Applied Geography, Volume 34, May 2012, Pages 146-160,

Anastassiadis A., Lagarias A. (2011). Afflux migratoires en Grèce. Mutations récentes dans l’agglomération urbaine de Thessalonique, Habiter les Balkans, Etudes balkaniques, Cahiers Pierre Bélon.

Lagarias A. (2010). Urban Growth Simulation through Cellular Automata: A Way of Exploring the Fractal Nature of Cities, Scienze Regionali – Italian Journal of Regional Science vol.9, n2, pp.5-24

Lagarias A. (2008). Evaluating Urban Sprawl Patterns through Fractal Analysis: The Issue of Sustainable Development in the Case of the Greek Metropolitan Areas, Scienze Regionali – Italian Journal of Regional Science, Vol.7 – n. 3, 2008, pp.53-78

Lagarias A. (2007). Fractal Analysis of the Urbanization at the Outskirts of the City: Models, Measurement and Explanation, Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography, article 391, URL : http://www.cybergeo.eu/index8902.html.

Prastacos P., Lagarias A. (2018). Urban form and transportation infrastructure in European cities, 4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility – CSUM2018 in Skiathos Island, Greece on 24 – 25 May 2018.

Lagarias A., Prastacos P. (2017). Estimation of fractal dimensions of Mediterranean Cities using data for different built-up densities”. 15th Conference of the ERSA-Gr, “Cities and regions in a changing Europe: challenges and prospects”, 5-7 July 2017, Panteion University, Athens, Greece.

Lagarias A., Sayas J. (2017). Comparing periurban patterns of Greek cities using spatial metrics to measure urban sprawl. 15th Conference of the ERSA-Gr, Cities and regions in a changing Europe: challenges and prospects, 5-7 July 2017, Panteion University, Athens, Greece.

Prastacos P., Lagarias A. (2016) Sprawl in European urban areas, Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2016), Paphos, Cyprus, Conference Volume 9688, doi:10.1117/12.2240734

Lagarias A., Prastacos P. (2014) Applying a CA-based model to explore land-use policy scenarios to contain sprawl in Thessaloniki, Greece, 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place, 3-6 June 2014, Castellón, Spain

Lagarias A. (2013). Dynamics of Urban Sprawl: Applying a CA-based Model to Explore Future Development Scenarios in Thessaloniki, 53rd ERSA (European Regional Science Association) Congress, 27-31 August 2013, Palermo, Italy

Lagarias A. (2011). Land use planning for sustainable development in periurban ecosystems: The case of Lake Koroneia in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2rd International Exergy, Life Cycle Assessment, and Sustainability Workshop & Symposium (ELCAS-2), June 2011, NISYROS – GREECE

Tsirigoti D., Lagarias A. (2007). Urban Form and Sustainability: Examining Recent Development in the Area of Thessaloniki, Greece’, 47th ERSA Congress, Local governance and sustainable development 29 August – 2 September 2007, Paris, France

Lagarias A. (2007). Evaluating Urban Sprawl Patterns through Fractal Analysis: The Issue of Sustainable Development in the Case of the Greek Metropolitan Areas, 47th ERSA Congress, Local governance and sustainable development, 29 August – 2 September 2007, Paris, France

Lagarias A. (2006). Fractal Analysis of the Urbanization at the Outskirts of the City: Models, Measurement and Explanation, 46th ERSA Congress, Enlargement, Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, 30 August – 3 September 2006, Volos, Greece