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I am an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the School of Production Engineering and Management of the Technical University of Crete (Chania, Greece) and an Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for Cultural Informatics of the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) of FORTH - Institute of Computer Science. I obtained my Engineer's Diploma in 2009 from the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering of University of the Aegean (Samos, Greece), and my MSc and PhD in 2012 and 2016, respectively, from the Computer Science Department of University of Crete (Heraklion, Greece). I conducted post-doctoral research at the L3S Research Center of the Leibniz University of Hanover (2016-2019) and at the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) of FORTH-ICS (2019-2023), and I was visiting lecturer at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (2020-2023).
My research interests lie in the areas of information systems, data management, and knowledge engineering, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary research and applications in Cultural Heritage, the (Digital) Humanities, the (Computational) Social Sciences, and other fields. The results of my research have been published in more than 60 refereed research articles, while I regularly participate to the scintific committees of international conferences and journals. Currently, I serve as Chair of the CIDOC CRM SIG (Special Interest Group), which develops and maintains the CIDOC CRM, an ISO-standard ontology for information integration and semantic interoperability in the Cultural Heritage domain.
I have worked in multiple research projects funded by European and Greek funds (including the ERC projects ALEXANDRIA, SeaLiT, and RICONTRANS), and I have awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship under the Horizon 2020 program for my postdoctoral project ReKnow in the field of Digital Humanities.
You can find detailed information in my Curriculum Vitae (ελληνική έκδοση εδώ).
Last update: August 2026
School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete
Chania, Greece
Centre for Cultural Informatics (CCI) and Information Systems Laboratory (ISL),
Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Centre for Cultural Informatics (CCI) and Information Systems Laboratory (ISL),
Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Heraklion, Greece
Department of Management Science and Technology, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Agios Nikolaos, Greece
Information Systems Laboratory (ISL),
Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Heraklion, Greece
Undergraduate Courses:
- Methodology of Computer Programming (PEM 101) [winter semester 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027]
- Electronic Business (PEM 230) [winter semester 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027]
- Business Intelligence, Analytics and Big Data Analysis (PEM 518) [spring semester 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027]
- Electronic Business and Digital Marketing (MBA 0205). Postgraduate program "MSc in Business Administration", co-teaching, 21 hours [spring semester 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026]
- Electronic Business and Digital Marketing (Code: 2002). Postgraduate program "MSc in Business Operations Management", in co-operation with University of West Attica, co-teaching, 30 hours [spring semester 2023-2024, 2025-2026]
Undergraduate Courses:
- Algorithms and Data Structures (MST304) [winter semester 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023]
- Software Technology (MST602) [spring semester 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023]
- e-Commerce and Internet Applications (MST604) [spring semester 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023]
Courses:
- Programming (CS-150) [spring semester 2009-2010]
- Object-Oriented Programming (CS-252) [winter semester 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016]
- Information System Analysis and Design (CS-351) [winter semester 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013]
- Web Programming (CS-359) [spring semester 2010-2011, 2012-2013]
- Information Retrieval Systems (CS-463) [spring semester 2014-2015, 2015-2016]
- Web Data Management (CS-561) [spring semester 2013-2014]
Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece
Thesis title: Exploiting Linked Data in Exploratory Search [pdf, slides]
Thesis Supervisor: Yannis Tzitzikas
Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece
Thesis title: Indexes and Algorithms for Scalable and Flexible Instant Overview Search [pdf, slides]
Thesis Supervisor: Yannis Tzitzikas
Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece
Thesis title: Meta-Seeker: a Retroactive Algorithm for Personalizing Information from Multiple Web Search Services [pdf]
Thesis Supervisor: Ioannis Anagnostopoulos
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Project "CHARM – Conservation Heritage Architecture, buildings and sites by Resilient Methods: hydro-climate factors", MSCA Doctoral Network 2025 (Project Number: 101226989). More information at: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101226989
Role: Scientific responsible for FORTH-ICS, Supervisor of PhD student.
Project "PortADa – Port Arrivals Data. Automatic data collection for a large-scale comparative history of 19th century shipping: a Digital Humanities approach to maritime heritage", MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (Project Number: 101129889). More information at: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101129889
Role: Scientific responsible for FORTH-ICS.
Project "RICONTRANS – Visual Culture, Piety and Propaganda: Transfer and Reception of Russian Religious Art in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (16th to early 20th Century)", ERC Consolidator Grant (No 818791). More information at: https://ricontrans-project.eu/
Role: Supervision and implementation of activities related to data management.
Project "FE.P.I.B. – Feminisms and Politics in the Interwar Balkans (1923-1939)", Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (Project Number: 03050). More information at: http://feminisms-politics.ia.uoc.gr/
Role: Supervision and implementation of activities related to data management.
The ReKnow project (No 890861) aims to provide models and tools for helping researchers in empirical and descriptive sciences (like History) in better documenting, analysing and investigating research processes and data. Emphasis is given in maintaining the provenance of data and on the usability of the developed tools. More information at: https://reknow.ics.forth.gr/.
Role: Principal investigator, fellowship holder.
Project "SeaLiT – Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s-1920s", ERC Starting Grant (Νο 714437). More information at: http://www.sealitproject.eu/
Role: Supervision and implementation of activities related to data management.
The Centre for the study and sustainable exploitation of Marine Biological Resources (CMBR) is an integrative large-scale Greek Research Infrastructure (RI) of the National Roadmap for RI’s, dedicated to the advancement of Blue Growth through the study and sustainable exploitation of marine biological resources in the Eastern Mediterranean. For more information visit: http://cmbr.hcmr.gr/.
Role: Research and implementation of methods and tools for data integration and exploration.
The ALEXANDRIA project (ERC Advanced Grant, No 339233) aims to develop models, tools and techniques necessary to explore and analyze Web archives in a meaningful way. ALEXANDRIA will significantly advance semantic and time-based indexing for Web archives using human-compiled knowledge available on the Web, to efficiently index, retrieve and explore information about entities and events from the past. For more information visit: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/339233.
Role: Postdoctoral researcher; Research on methods for the semantic and entity-based exploration of Web Archives.
European initiative funded under the H2020 framework to further develop and exploit the iMarine e-Infrastructure data services for an ecosystem approach to fisheries. For more information visit: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/675680.
Role: I extended the system X-Search for enabling the stochastic re-ranking of search results based on extracted entities. Moreover, I participated in the study of methods for quantifying the connectivity and evolution of a semantic warehouse.
iMarine (Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources) is a European Commission funded project that kicked-off on 1st Nov 2011. It is an open and collaborative initiative that will establish a data infrastructure to support the Ecosystem Approach to fisheries management and conservation of marine living resources. For more information visit: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/283644.
Role: I designed and developed the system X-Search for the semantic exploration of search results, as well as the system X-Link for the extraction of entities and their further enrichment by exploiting Linked Data. Moreover, I participated in the development of the top-level ontology "MarineTLO" which allows describing and integrating marine data.
Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access (MUMIA), COST Action IC1002. The main objective of the Action is to coordinate and support the interaction and harmonization of high quality research at a European level in the field of multilingual and multifaceted interactive information access with a view to contribute to the development of next-generation search systems. For more information visit: https://www.cost.eu/actions/IC1002/.
Role: Member of the action, participation to working groups and management committee meetings, involved in WG4 (Semantic Search, Faceted Search and Visualization).
I was born in Chios, a beautiful island in the eastern Aegean Sea, just five miles off the coast of Asia Minor. In September 2003, I moved a few miles south to the island of Samos where I spent five wonderful years studying Information and Communication Systems Engineering. In November 2008, I joined the Greek Armed Forces to complete my mandatory military service, which lasted one year. In February 2010, I began my graduate studies (MSc and PhD) on the island of Crete (Heraklion). In June 2016, I moved to Hannover (Lower Saxony, Germany) as a postdoctoral researcer, and in June 2019, I returned to Heraklion to work at FORTH as a senior researcher. In February 2021, I became the father of Markos, the most wonderful baby boy. In December 2023, I moved to Chania and joined the Technical University of Crete as an assistant professor.
In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, watching sports and movies, traveling, reading books, and taking photographs (you can find some here).
Technical University of Crete - School of Production Engineering and Management, University Campus, Akrotiri, Chania 73100, Greece
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Office: Γ3.101
Emails: pfafalios@tuc.gr, fafalios@ics.forth.gr
Gmail: fafalios.pavlos@gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0003-2788-526X
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