Nikos Papamarkos was born in Alexandroupoli, Greece, in 1956. He  received his Diploma Degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering  from the University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1979 and  the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1986, from the  Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.

Dr Papamarkos was elected as a Lecturer (1987 to 1990) and then  promoted to Assistant Professor (1990 to 1996),  Associate Professor  (1996-2003) and Professor (2003 - now) at the Democritus University of  Thrace. During 1987 and 1992 he has also served as a Visiting Research  Associate at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

His current research interests lie in digital image processing,  computer vision, document processing, analysis and recognition,  pattern recognition, neural networks, signal processing, filter design  and optimization algorithms.

He has published more than 140  Journal and  Conferences papers with  more than 1500 citations. Also, he is the author of six Greek books.

Professor Nikos Papamarkos is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of IAPR,  Member of IEE and Member of the Greek Technical Chamber.

You can also visit the following affiliated sites:

• Electrical Circuit Analysis Laboratory.
• Image Processing and Multimedia Laboratory.
• Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.