Dr. Georgios L. Stavrinides
I am a research collaborator at the Department of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, under the supervision of Professor Emeritus Helen D. Karatza.
I received the B.Sc. degree in Informatics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2006 and the M.Sc. degree in Advanced Computing from Imperial College London, UK in 2007. I received the Ph.D. degree in Informatics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2014, under the supervision of Professor Helen D. Karatza.
My research interests include:
- Scheduling Algorithms
- Real-Time Distributed Systems
- Cloud and Fog Computing
- Modeling, Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Distributed Systems
EDUCATION
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Feb 2008 - Mar 2014
Ph.D. in Informatics
- Thesis: Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Methods in Distributed Real-Time Systems
- Supervisor: Professor Helen D. Karatza
- Grade: Excellent
- Thesis: Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Methods in Distributed Real-Time Systems
Imperial College London, UK
Sep 2006 - Sep 2007
M.Sc. in Advanced Computing
- Thesis: Deadline Scheduling in Distributed Real-Time Systems
- Thesis Supervisor: Professor Peter G. Harrison
- Thesis Grade: Distinction
- Thesis: Deadline Scheduling in Distributed Real-Time Systems
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Sep 2002 - Sep 2006
B.Sc. in Informatics
- Grade: 8.46/10
- Thesis: Modeling, Simulation and Performance Evaluation of a Distributed Real-Time System
- Thesis Supervisor: Professor Helen D. Karatza
- Thesis Grade: 10/10
- Ranked 1st student in all academic years (2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005 and 2005-2006)
- Grade: 8.46/10
PUBLICATIONS
Conference Papers
- [C36] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling linear workflows with dynamically adjustable exit tasks on distributed resources, in Proceedings of the IEEE 15th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS'23), Mexico City, Mexico, Mar. 2023, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1109/ISADS56919.2023.10092151.
- [C35] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Resource allocation and scheduling of real-time workflow applications in an IoT-fog-cloud environment, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC'22), Paris, France, Dec. 2022, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1109/FMEC57183.2022.10062849.
- [C34] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Resource allocation and scheduling of linear workflow applications with ageing priorities and transient failures, in Proceedings of the 19th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA'22), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 2022, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA56895.2022.10017928.
- [C33] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling tightly coupled parallel jobs with runtime-extended tasks on distributed resources, in Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity and Informatics (CCCI'22), Dalian, China, Oct. 2022, pp. 1-7, https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCI55352.2022.9926588.
- [C32] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, The effect of laxity of real-time workflow applications on the performance of elastic cloud resources, in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud'22), Rome, Italy, Aug. 2022, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud57274.2022.00008.
- [C31] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Security-aware orchestration of linear workflows on distributed resources, in Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS'22), Athens, Greece, Jul. 2022, pp. 1-5, https://doi.org/10.1109/CITS55221.2022.9832986.
- [C30] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Data-aware resource allocation of linear pipeline applications in a distributed environment, in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS'22), Irbid, Jordan, Jun. 2022, pp. 121-126, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICICS55353.2022.9811176.
- [C29] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling real-time IoT workflows in a fog computing environment utilizing cloud resources with data-aware elasticity, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC'21), Gandia, Spain, Dec. 2021, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1109/FMEC54266.2021.9732561.
- Best Paper Award - - [C28] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Resource assignment strategies for bags-of-tasks in distributed systems, in Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS'21), Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 2021, pp. 1-5, https://doi.org/10.1109/CITS52676.2021.9618074.
- [C27] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Fault-tolerant orchestration of bags-of-tasks with application-directed checkpointing in a distributed environment, in Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity and Informatics (CCCI'21), Beijing, China, Oct. 2021, pp. 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCI52664.2021.9583187.
- [C26] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Security and cost aware scheduling of real-time IoT workflows in a mist computing environment, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud'21), Rome, Italy, Aug. 2021, pp.34-41, https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud49777.2021.00013.
- [C25] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Orchestrating bag-of-tasks applications with dynamically spawned tasks in a distributed environment, in Proceedings of the 2021 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'21), Fairfax, VA, USA, Jul. 2021, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.23919/SPECTS52716.2021.9639275.
- Best Paper Award - - [C24] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Weighted scheduling of mixed gang jobs on distributed resources, in Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity and Informatics (CCCI'20), Sharjah, UAE, Nov. 2020, pp. 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCI49893.2020.9256505.
- [C23] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Multi-criteria scheduling of complex workloads on distributed resources, in Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS'20), Hangzhou, China, Oct. 2020, pp. 1-5, https://doi.org/10.1109/CITS49457.2020.9232551.
- [C22] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling a time-varying workload of multiple types of jobs on distributed resources, in Proceedings of the 2020 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'20), Madrid, Spain, Jul. 2020, pp. 1-6, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9203602.
- [C21] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Orchestration of real-time workflows with varying input data locality in a heterogeneous fog environment, in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC'20), Paris, France, Jun. 2020, pp. 202-209, https://doi.org/10.1109/FMEC49853.2020.9144824.
- [C20] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling a job mix of bag-of-tasks and bag-of-task-chains on distributed resources, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS'20), Irbid, Jordan, Apr. 2020, pp. 394-399, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICICS49469.2020.239562.
- [C19] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling different types of gang jobs in distributed systems, in Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS'19), Beijing, China, Aug. 2019, pp. 1-5, https://doi.org/10.1109/CITS.2019.8862091.
- [C18] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Cost-effective utilization of complementary cloud resources for the scheduling of real-time workflow applications in a fog environment, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud'19), Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2019, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00009.
- [C17] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling single-task jobs along with bag-of-task-chains in distributed systems, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems (ICFNDS'19), Paris, France, Jul. 2019, pp. 32:1-32:6, https://doi.org/10.1145/3341325.3342023.
- [C16] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling different types of bag-of-tasks jobs in distributed systems, in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS'19), Irbid, Jordan, Jun. 2019, pp. 13-18, https://doi.org/10.1109/IACS.2019.8809138.
- [C15] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling bag-of-task-chains in distributed systems, in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS'19), Utrecht, The Netherlands, Apr. 2019, pp. 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1109/ISADS45777.2019.9156029.
- [C14] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Energy-aware scheduling of real-time workflow applications in clouds utilizing DVFS and approximate computations, in Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud'18), Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2018, pp. 33-40, https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2018.00013.
- [C13] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Task group scheduling in distributed systems, in Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS'18), Colmar, France, Jul. 2018, pp. 1-5, https://doi.org/10.1109/CITS.2018.8440181.
- Best Paper Award (Computer Systems Category) - - [C12] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling techniques for complex workloads in distributed systems, in Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems (ICFNDS'18), Amman, Jordan, Jun. 2018, pp. 34:1-34:6, https://doi.org/10.1145/3231053.3231087.
- [C11] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, The impact of data locality on the performance of a SaaS cloud with real-time data-intensive applications, in Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT'17), Rome, Italy, Oct. 2017, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1109/DISTRA.2017.8167683.
- [C10] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, The effect of workload computational demand variability on the performance of a SaaS cloud with a multi-tier SLA, in Proceedings of the IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud'17), Prague, Czech Republic, Aug. 2017, pp. 10-17, https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2017.26.
- [C9] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Periodic scheduling of mixed workload in distributed systems, in Proceedings of the 23rd ICE/IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE'17), Madeira Island, Portugal, Jun. 2017, pp. 94-99, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2017.8279875.
- [C8] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Simulation-based performance evaluation of an energy-aware heuristic for the scheduling of HPC applications in large-scale distributed systems, in Proceedings of the 8th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE'17), 3rd International Workshop on Energy-aware Simulation (ENERGY-SIM'17), L'Aquila, Italy, Apr. 2017, pp. 49-54, https://doi.org/10.1145/3053600.3053611.
- [C7] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling real-time parallel applications in SaaS clouds in the presence of transient software failures, in Proceedings of the 2016 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'16), Montreal, Canada, Jul. 2016, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1109/SPECTS.2016.7570524.
- [C6] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling different types of applications in a SaaS cloud, in Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design (BMSD'16), Rhodes, Greece, Jun. 2016, pp. 144-151, https://doi.org/10.5220/0006223101440151.
- [C5] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, A cost-effective and QoS-aware approach to scheduling real-time workflow applications in PaaS and SaaS clouds, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud'15), Rome, Italy, Aug. 2015, pp. 231-239, https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2015.93.
- [C4] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling real-time jobs in distributed systems - simulation and performance analysis, in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems (NESUS'14), Porto, Portugal, Aug. 2014, pp. 13-18, http://hdl.handle.net/10016/21981.
- [C3] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, The impact of resource heterogeneity on the timeliness of hard real-time complex jobs, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA'14), Workshop on Distributed Sensor Systems for Assistive Environments (Di-Sensa), Rhodes, Greece, May 2014, pp. 65:1-65:8, https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674469.
- [C2] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, The impact of input error on the scheduling of task graphs with imprecise computations in heterogeneous distributed real-time systems, in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA'11), Venice, Italy, Jun. 2011, pp. 273-287, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21713-5_20.
- [C1] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Performance evaluation of gang scheduling in distributed real-time systems with possible software faults, in Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'08), Edinburgh, UK, Jun. 2008, pp. 1-7, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4667536.
Journal Articles
- [J19] H. D. Karatza and G. L. Stavrinides, Resource allocation and aging priority-based scheduling of linear workflow applications with transient failures and selective imprecise computations, Cluster Computing, Springer, Jan. 2024, in press, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-023-04249-7.
- [J18] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Security, cost and energy aware scheduling of real-time IoT workflows in a mist computing environment, Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, Jun. 2022, in press, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-022-10304-2.
- [J17] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Orchestrating real-time IoT workflows in a fog computing environment utilizing partial computations with end-to-end error propagation, Cluster Computing, Springer, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 3629-3650, Dec. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-021-03327-y.
- [J16] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Cost-aware cloud bursting in a fog-cloud environment with real-time workflow applications, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, vol. 33, no. 23, pp. e5850, Dec. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.5850.
- [J15] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Multicriteria scheduling of linear workflows with dynamically varying structure on distributed platforms, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier, vol. 112, pp. 102369, Nov. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2021.102369.
- [J14] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Dynamic scheduling of bags-of-tasks with sensitive input data and end-to-end deadlines in a hybrid cloud, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 80, no. 11, pp. 16781-16803, May 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-08974-8.
- [J13] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling real-time bag-of-tasks applications with approximate computations in SaaS clouds, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. e4208, Jan. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.4208.
- [J12] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, A hybrid approach to scheduling real-time IoT workflows in fog and cloud environments, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 78, no. 17, pp. 24639-24655, Sep. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-7051-9.
- [J11] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, An energy-efficient, QoS-aware and cost-effective scheduling approach for real-time workflow applications in cloud computing systems utilizing DVFS and approximate computations, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, vol. 96, pp. 216-226, Jul. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.02.019.
- [J10] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Performance evaluation of a SaaS cloud under different levels of workload computational demand variability and tardiness bounds, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier, vol. 91, pp. 1-12, Feb. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2018.11.006.
- [J9] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, The impact of workload variability on the energy efficiency of large-scale heterogeneous distributed systems, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier, vol. 89, pp. 135-143, Dec. 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2018.09.013.
- [J8] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, The impact of checkpointing interval selection on the scheduling performance of real-time fine-grained parallel applications in SaaS clouds under various failure probabilities, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. e4288, Jun. 2018, https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.4288.
- [J7] G. L. Stavrinides, F. R. Duro, H. D. Karatza, J. G. Blas, and J. Carretero, Different aspects of workflow scheduling in large-scale distributed systems, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier, vol. 70, pp. 120-134, Jan. 2017, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2016.10.009.
- [J6] M. Bagein, J. Barbosa, V. Blanco, I. Brandic, S. Cremer, S. Fremal, H. D. Karatza, L. Lefevre, T. Mastelic, A. Oleksiak, A. Orgerie, G. L. Stavrinides, and S. Varrette, Energy efficiency for ultrascale systems: Challenges and trends from NESUS project, Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations, Publishing Center of South Ural State University, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 105-131, Sep. 2015, https://doi.org/10.14529/jsfi150206.
- [J5] G. Da Costa, T. Fahringer, J. A. Rico-Gallego, I. Grasso, A. Hristov, H. D. Karatza, A. Lastovetsky, F. Marozzo, D. Petcu, G. L. Stavrinides, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, and H. Astsatryan, Exascale machines require new programming paradigms and runtimes, Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations, Publishing Center of South Ural State University, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 6-27, Sep. 2015, https://doi.org/10.14529/jsfi150201.
- [J4] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling real-time DAGs in heterogeneous clusters by combining imprecise computations and bin packing techniques for the exploitation of schedule holes, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 977-988, Jul. 2012, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2012.03.002.
- [J3] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling multiple task graphs in heterogeneous distributed real-time systems by exploiting schedule holes with bin packing techniques, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 540-552, Jan. 2011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2010.08.010.
- [J2] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling multiple task graphs with end-to-end deadlines in distributed real-time systems utilizing imprecise computations, Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 1004-1014, Jun. 2010, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2009.12.025.
- [J1] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Fault-tolerant gang scheduling in distributed real-time systems utilizing imprecise computations, Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Sage Publications, vol. 85, no. 8, pp. 525-536, Aug. 2009, https://doi.org/10.1177/0037549709340729.
Book Chapters
- [B2] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Workload scheduling in fog and cloud environments: Emerging concepts and research directions, in Advances in Computing, Informatics, Networking and Cybersecurity, 1st ed., ser. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer, Jan. 2022, vol. 289, ch. 1, pp. 3-32, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87049-2_1.
- [B1] G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, Scheduling data-intensive workloads in large-scale distributed systems: Trends and challenges, in Modeling and Simulation in HPC and Cloud Systems, 1st ed., ser. Studies in Big Data, Springer, Feb. 2018, vol. 36, ch. 2, pp. 19-43, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73767-6_2.
ACTIVITIES
- Member of the Editorial Board of Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier (Jul 2018 - Present).
- Co-Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Cyber-physical systems, digital twins and Industry 4.0: The role of modeling and simulation, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier.
- Co-Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Leveraging blockchain and AI for IoT, mist, fog and cloud computing: A performance modeling and simulation perspective, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier.
- Co-Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Containerization, microservices and serverless cloud computing: Modeling and simulation, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier.
- Co-Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Modeling and simulation of hybrid clouds, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier.
- Co-Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Modeling and simulation of fog computing, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier.
- Co-Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Modeling and simulation of cloud computing and big data, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier.
- Member of COST Actions:
- IC1406 High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications - cHiPSet (Nov 2016 - Apr 2019).
- IC1305 Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing - NESUS (Jul 2014 - Mar 2018).
- IC0805 Open Network for High-Performance Computing on Complex Environments - ComplexHPC (Sep 2009 - Jul 2013).
HONORS & AWARDS
- Best Paper Award at the Sixth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC'21), for the paper: Scheduling real-time IoT workflows in a fog computing environment utilizing cloud resources with data-aware elasticity, G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza.
- Best Paper Award at the 2021 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'21), for the paper: Orchestrating bag-of-tasks applications with dynamically spawned tasks in a distributed environment, G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza.
- Best Paper Award (Computer Systems Category) at the 2018 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS'18), for the paper: Task group scheduling in distributed systems, G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza.
- Honorary Scholarship and Prize from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) for distinction in studies during the academic years: 2002-2003, 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 (BSc in Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece).
- Scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) for outstanding performance in admission examinations for Greek Higher Education Institutions (Cyprus, July 2000).
