PhD in Demography, Associate Professor of Demography at the Department of History and Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace. His research focuses on the study of mortality, health, and the application of stochastic methods in demography, population & fertility modelling and analysis and has worked on issues of paleodemography and statistics. He has also extensively studied the genealogical and demographic structure of dozens of anthropological populations. He has served as a scientific supervisor or participated in research projects funded by national and international institutions and he is the author and editor of books and numerous articles on demographic developments.