Dr. John Violos works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH). He is also adjunct professor at Harokopio University of Athens and at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His previous positions include: Researcher in the Dept. of Software Engineering and Information Technology at École de Technologie Supérieure, Université du Québec in Montreal, Canada; Researcher at National Technical University of Athens, Greece; He was a member of the European Commission’s Digital Single Market working group on the code of conduct for switching and porting data between cloud service providers. He has participated as work package leader, task leader and researcher in more than eleven research projects funded by the European Union, Korea and Canada. He has more than fifty publications in top-tier conferences and journals. He received the Best Paper Award of the IEEE CISOSE 2023 Conference, the Best Paper Award of the IEEE iThings 2021 Conference, the Best Course Teaching by an adjunct professor Award of Harokopio University of Athens 2021 and Τhomaidion Αward 2017.