Christos Skourlas is an emeritus professor of Databases at the Informatics and Computer Engineering Department of the University of West Attica, Athens Greece (1989-). He holds B.Sc. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Athens in Greece. He worked as analyst-programmer and Head of the Systems (1983-9) at the National Documentation Centre of Greece. He also worked as researcher at the Nuclear Research Centre "Demokritos" (1977-82). Prof. C. Skourlas participated as a coordinator and/or key researcher in many research and development projects. He is the author of research papers published in refereed international scientific journals and conference proceedings, and he is also program and organizing committee member of international and national conferences and reviewer for international journals. Prof. C. Skourlas taught a variety of subjects both at the undergraduate and the postgraduate level.
In the framework of the ESPA – Digital Convergence programme, the project titled “New Digital Services at the TEI of Athens: Services and Digital Educational Content for students with special needs and hard-of-hearing students.” (Coordinator C. Skourlas) was funded and services are offered to the disable students through the PyLes page.
His research interests include Information Retrieval, Knowledge and Database Management, Database and Big data, Assistive and Learning technologies, Medical Informatics, Pervasive and Mobile computing, and Security.