Andreas Tsatsaris is a Surveyor Engineer (MSc, BSc) and his PhD thesis deals with the subject of GeoInformatics Applications in Medical Geography and Spatial Epidemiology (especially the zoonoses’ dispersal in Greece). He has participated in national and international research projects and has contributed several papers to the relative literature. Moreover, he worked as an advisor in the coordination and crisis management following natural disasters which might conduce to disease dispersal (CDC Greece’s special advisor in the fires of 2007). He is a scientific partner of the WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mediterranean Zoonoses of the School of Medicine of the University of Crete on issues of Geographical Data Bases concerning zoonoses. He has been teaching GIS as an assistant professor in The Department of Surveying Engineering of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens since 1996, and is director of the Department’s GeoInformatics Laboratory. He has been teaching GIS as an executive professor in the Department of Regional Administration and Regional Development of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government since 1999. He is teaching Spatial Epidemiology as a visiting professor in postgraduate programs of the University of Crete. He is one of the referees of the Journals of Vector Ecology, Zoonoses and Public Health and Aeichoros. He is a member of the scientific network VBorNet (Vector Borne Disease Network). He has taken part in 16 research projects since 1990 and has served as a technical advisor to major firms whose main concern is developing GIS applications. Finally, he has extensive experience over many years in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applications in various fields, and has stood out in the Greek community of GeoInformatics Science, being the president of the Hellenic Association for Geographic Information (HellasGI) between 2006 and 2008.
