Speakers & Chairs

Dr. Evgenia Alexandropoulou is a Professor in I.T. Law in the Department of Applied Informatics at the University of Macedonia – Thessaloniki, where she’ s currently teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A former attorney at law at the Supreme Court, she headed the legal department of Egnatia Bank in Northern Greece. She was also a member of the editorial board of the Law Review “Harmenopoulos”, edited by the Bar of Thessaloniki. She has written several scientific books and articles on Civil, Banking, Labour, International and IT Law. In recent years her interests have focused mainly on personal data and software protection.

She is and a Honors graduate of Athens Law School (first of class). She is a holder of a LLM degree (Cambridge Law School, UK) a LLM degree from Yale Law School and a PhD on medical information law and ethics from the University of Athens. She was appointed Faculty Fellow at Harvard University, Center for Ethics and the Professions (2000-2001). She has been a NATO/an Onassis/a Rotary/an IKY/a Clare Hall (Cambridge, UK) and a Harvard scholar. She is an elected Co-Director the International Society for Ethics and Technology (2014-2018). She has authored five books, the latest being ‘A Defense of Intellectual Property Rights’, 2009, Edward Elgar Publishing (with Professor Richard Spinello) and has edited eight volumes on information law/ethics e.tc. She is also the author of more than 80 Greek and international publications on computer and information law/ethics, data protection, digital divide, library ethics, privacy medical/health law and others. She is a EU expert called in missions in Europe and beyond. She is the founder of the International Conference on Information Law and Ethics (ICIL) series, from 2008 onwards, of the Athens Data Protection Colloquium (with Dr. Fereniki Panagopoulou-Koutnatzi) and of the Medical Responsibility and Ethics (MRBE) conference series (with Dr. Fereniki Panagopoulou-Koutnatzi). She has been the organizer or numerous symposiums, seminars, colloquiums e.tc. She has delivered more than sixty speeches, presentations, lectures in Greece and abroad. She is the Head of the Research Team ‘Information: History, Regulation and Culture’.
Personal website: bottis.ihrc.gr

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2004: Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY of THESSALONIKI (tenuarship, since 2009-10)
1998: Lecturer
1995: Charged with Law Courses

ACADEMIC SPECIALISATION
Media Law and ethics, Copyright Law, Communication policy and culture

COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate
Media Ethics / Media Law / Copyright law / New Media Law and Ethics

Master
Communication Policy and Culture I (European Audiovisual policy)
Communication Policy and Culture II (Copyright, New media, Remix culture)

David A. Frenkel was born in Tel Aviv, 1940, and lives in Beer-Sheva. He is emeritus professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, where he was the head of the Law Area at the Department of Business Administration, and professor of law at Carmel Academic Centre Law School, Haifa. His degrees include M. Jur. and LL.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, in addition to his studies at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He is the author of over 80 publications, including 11 books. Prof. Frenkel was the legal adviser of the Israeli Ministry of Health in the years 1976 – 1981. During the years 1990-1997 he was the legal adviser of the municipality of Beer-Sheva. He is the chairman of the Ethics Committees of Soroka Medical Center and of the Southern District of Israel. Prof. Frenkel was a visiting professor at King's College London School of Law, and is the head of the law research unit of the Athens Institute of Education and Research. He is involved in international as well as national research committees. His research interests are in Business Law and Ethics, Employment Law, Medical and Health Laws and Ethics, and Philosophy of Law. Professor Frenkel is a member of the Israeli Bar. He was honored as Worthy of the City of Beer-Sheva in 2004. He has 5 children and 7 grandchildren.

Dr. Gritzalis is a Professor of ICT Security with the Dept. of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece. He is also the Director of the Information Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection Research Group, as well as the Director of the Graduate Programme in Information Systems at AUEB. He holds a B.Sc. (Mathematics, Univ. of Patras), a M.Sc. (Computer Science, City University of New York) and a Ph.D. (Critical Information Systems Security, Univ. of the Aegean). Prof. Gritzalis has served as Associate Commissioner of the Greek Data Protection Commission and as the President of the Greek Computer Society. He is, also, the national representative of Greece to IFIP TC-11. His publication record includes include 10 books and more than 150 papers. His current research interests focus on security in ambient intelligence, security paradigms, privacy enhancing technologies, and critical ICT infrastructure protection

Nikolaos Intzessiloglou is a lawyer (registered in the Bar Association of Thessaloniki since 1975), Lawyer Emeritus (since Mars 2009), Professor in the Law Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (since 1985).

More information: School of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Lambros Kotsiris is Professor emeritus of Law at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki and a Member of the Greek Academy. He teaches at the National School of Judges, at the Hellenic Open University and at the Law School of the Aristotelian University (Erasmus students and students of the LL.M. Program). He has been the Head of the Legal Department in Greek banks (Chios Bank and Piraeus Bank). He has chaired and participated in numerous national and international conferences, in WIPO and in UNCITRAL. He has served as member (and president) of many Committees working on law proposals in the fields of copyright, the structural reform of privatization, insolvency law and the adoption of Model Insolvency Law of UNCITRAL. He served also as a member and as a president of many institutions, such as the Hellenic Copyright Organization, the National Committee of Professional Athletics and the Institute of the Aegean for the Law of the Sea & Maritime Law. He has written more than 200 monographs, books, studies and articles, on all subjects of Commercial Law –and not only- in Greek, English, German and French.

Dr Alan Mckenna is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent, UK, teaching Tort Law, and a Visiting Lecturer at City University, London, teaching Intellectual Property Law. He holds a Ph.d and LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Kent. His published work includes articles on communications convergence, online privacy, and computer waste. With Maria Anestopoulou he jointly wrote for the Association for Progressive Communication an Internet Rights Country Report on Greece. He will shortly have published a book entitled, 'A new human right to participate in the Information Society'. His current research interests include, online profiling and digital surveillance, negligently caused asbestos related diseases, and a human right to communicate.

Dr. Lilian Mitrou, born in Athens-Greece (1964), is Assistant Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering (University if the Aegean). She holds a PhD in Data Protection (Law School of Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt). L. Mitrou teaches electronic democracy, electronic governance,information law and data protection at the University of Athens (Dept of Law, Dept. of Political Sciences - Postgraduate Studies) as well as information law and electronic governance at the National Academy of Public Administration. She has served as a Member of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (1999-2003) and as Adviser to the Prime Minister in sectors of Information Society and Public Administration (1996 - 2004). From 1998 till 2004 she was the national representative in the EC- Committee on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data. She served as member of many Committees working on law proposals in the fields of data protection(transposition of Directives 95/46/EC, 97/66/EC and 02/58/EC), electronic government, electronic commerce etc. Her professional experience includes senior consulting and researcher positions in a number of private and public institutions. She published twelve books or chapters in books (in Greek, German and English) and many journal and national and international conference papers.

Head of Unit, Statutory Entitlements, Social and medical affairs, Working Conditions, Court of Justice of the EU - Chairman, Management Committee, Health Insurance Scheme of the Institutions of the EU.
Diploma in Law, Postgraduate diploma, Law Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / LL.M. (by research and thesis) "Advanced Information Technology and Law", Dept. of Jurisprudence, The Queen’s University of Belfast.
Past:
- Barrister, Thessaloniki Bar (Member of the Legal Data Processing Committee 1987) / Lawyer to the European Patent Office (EPO). (outstanding since 1988 following recruitement by the Court of Justice of the E.U.)
- 1981-88 Researcher : experimental project INNOMOS - Legal Data Processing (directed by Prof Evrigenis and Assist. T. Passias) Law Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Section of legal data processing, Center for International and European Economic Law, Thessaloniki.(1987 Teaching in seminar "Computers and Law" by ELKEPA – Member, Working Group computerised systems in justice : Greek Ministry of Justice)

Since February 1988, Administrator, Court of justice of the EU
- 1988 Service of Legal Data Processing,
- 1990 Staff Department, Automation officer
1990 Head of the Section "Statutory Entitlements"
1991 Legal Counsel to the administration
- 1994 Library Division, Administrator, Automation officer.
- 2005 Civil service Tribunal, Tagaras chambers, Legal Secretary,

Member of:
"Society for Computers and Law", U.K.
"International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law", USA
"International federation of European Law"
"Internet Society (ISOC)" – candidate Management Board 2000 – member ISTF
(Internet Societal Task Force) - elected 2000: Internet Societal Steering Group (ISSG)
ISOC Chapter Luxembourg, Founding member. Treasurer 1999-2006.

Dr. Helen Rethimiotaki, born in Athens-Greece (1964) is a Lecturer at the Department of Law of the University of Athens, teaching Sociology of Law and Sociology since the year 2005. She is a graduated of the same Faculty and holds a PhD in Sociology of Law (Faculté Droit-Economie-Sciences sociales - Université Panthéon~Assas~Paris II). She is a lawyer, a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1990. She has worked as legal consultant of a bank’s commercial credit insurance company (1997-2005). She also was a Special Teaching Fellow at the Law Department of University of Athens (2001-2005). She is an author of five books or chapters in books and of various publications. Her research interests focus on political sociology of Law, i.e. professional deontology (doctor-patient relationship), bioethics and informatics as examples of social autoregulation combined with law or European legal integration and “postmodern” legal pluralism. Her research interests also include gender analysis and private power relationships focused on family law.

Aristea Sinanioti-Maroudi is Professor of Commercial Law and Law of Informatics at the University of Piraeus. She has chaired and participated in numerous national and international conferences. She has served as member (and president) of many Committees working on law proposals. She served also as a member of the Hellenic Competition Commission. She has written many monographs, books, studies and articles, on all subjects of Commercial Law in Greek, English and German.

Irini Stamatoudi is a lawyer and is currently the Director of the Hellenic Copyright Organization, which belongs to the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. She holds degrees from the University of Athens (Greece) (Ptyhio Nomikis) and from the University of Leicester (UK) (LL.M. and Ph.D.). She worked as a lecturer at the University of Leicester until 2001 when she returned to Greece. She has since then delivered lectures on various academic courses in Athens, Thessaloniki, Turin, Geneva and Strasbourg. She has published in Greece, in the UK and the US ten books the most recent one being ‘European Union Law, A commentary on EU legislation’. The publishers include Cambridge University Press, Sweet & Maxwell, Edward Elgar Publishing, Kluwer Law International, and the Greek publishers Nomiki Vivliothiki and Sakkoulas. She has also published widely in well-known law journals such as the Intellectual Property Quarterly, the European Intellectual Property Review, the European Law Review, the Revue Hellénique de Droit International, the IIC, the Journal of World Intellectual Property and Art, Law and Antiquity and so on. She has been appointed by Greece President in the IP Working Group (Copyright) during the Hellenic Presidency in the EU Council (first semester 2014).

Dr. Evgenia Alexandropoulou is a Professor in I.T. Law in the Department of Applied Informatics at the University of Macedonia – Thessaloniki, where she’ s currently teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A former attorney at law at the Supreme Court, she headed the legal department of Egnatia Bank in Northern Greece. She was also a member of the editorial board of the Law Review “Harmenopoulos”, edited by the Bar of Thessaloniki. She has written several scientific books and articles on Civil, Banking, Labour, International and IT Law. In recent years her interests have focused mainly on personal data and software protection.

Πτυχιούχος του Τμήματος Νομικής, ΑΠΘ.
Μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές στο Ευρωπαϊκό Δίκαιο, Ελεύθερο Πανεπιστήμιο Βρυξελλών.
Διδακτορικό στο Ευρωπαϊκό Δίκαιο, Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης.

Christina Angelopoulos studied law at the University of Athens and went on to complete her LL.M. course on European law at the University of Edinburgh. She joined IViR in 2008, where, alongside other research projects, she worked as editor for IRIS, the monthly newsletter on audiovisual law published by the European Audiovisual Observatory. As part of the EuropeanaConnect project, she also performed and coordinated the legal research behind the creation of IViR and NL Kennisland's online Public Domain Calculators.

Currently, Christina is a Ph.D. candidate at IViR. Her thesis will focus on the liability of online intermediaries for copyright infringement.

Theodore Asprogerakas-Grivas is the senior Legal Adviser of AEPI (Hellenic Intellectual Property Society), which collectively represents, administers and protects in Greece the economic rights of authors, composers, lyricists and other rightowners in their musical works (local and international). He is also the Legal Adviser of SOPE (the Hellenic Copyright Protection Society), which, among others, represents, administers and protects in Greece the “grand” rights of foreign authors of theatrical works, directors, script-writers and composers of classical music. He provides legal consultation and also practices active litigation on all Intellectual Property matters before national Courts, the European Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance of the European Communities and the European Court of Human Rights. He has published several monographs and articles on Intellectual Property and other fields of law. He is an active member of various Legal Societies, such as the ALAI, the Hellenic Society of Philosophical and Historical Research of Law (permanent member of its Board of Directors), La Société Hellénique d’ Informatique Juridique et de Cybernétique du Droit, the Hellenic Society of Criminal Law, the Society of Administrative Studies, the Hellenic Society for Legislation, the IAEL etc. He also has a Postgraduate Diploma and a Master of Arts from King’s College London on UK, EC and US Copyright Law.

Born in 1975, Ankara. Graduated Ankara University Faculty of Law in 1997 and completed LLM studies in Southampton UK. Completed Ph.D in 2007 Marmara University. Author of the book “Technological Protection of Copyright (Turkish). Since 2010 Assistant Professor of IP and IT Law at Koç University Faculty of Law. Project leader of Creative Commons Turkey

Enrico Bonadio is Senior Lecturer in Law at City University London (City Law School), where he teaches Intellectual Property Law and EU Law. He holds law degrees from the University of Florence (PhD) and the University of Pisa (LLB). Enrico is Associate Editor and Intellectual Property Correspondent of the European Journal of Risk Regulation.

He regularly lectures, publishes and advises in the field of UK, European and international intellectual property law. He recently published a book on TRIPS Agreement and genetic resources (Jovene, 2008) and several articles in leading international peer-reviewed journals, including Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, European Intellectual Property Review, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, International Trade Law & Regulation and European Journal of Risk Regulation. He also regularly acts as reviewer on an ad hoc basis for the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice and the European Journal of Risk Regulation, inter alia. He received the ECTA Award for the Best Paper in Trademark Law in 2013 (plain packaging of tobacco products under European intellectual property law). Visit his ssrn page and find out more about Enrico's selected publications.

Enrico is Visiting Professor in European Intellectual Property Law at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and Université Catholique de Lyon as well as visiting lecturer at the LLM in Intellectual Property offered by WIPO and the University of Turin. He also teaches as Visiting Professor at the University of Turku (Finland). He also recently taught at Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala, University of Wroclaw (Poland), Moscow State Law Academy (Russia), Université de Toulouse (France) and University of Pisa (Italy).
n 2013 he has been Visiting Scholar at Melbourne Law School (University of Melbourne, Australia).

Enrico is a Solicitor qualified to practise in England and Wales as well as in Italy. He practised as Intellectual Property attorney for several years in top-tier international law firms.

Enrico is also regular consultant with the European Commission - DG Enlargement (TAIEX - Technical Assistance and Information Exchange), providing technical assistance and advice on the transposition of EU intellectual property legislation into the national legislation of beneficiary countries.

After receiving his LLB degree he attended the Post-Graduate Course in International Trade Law (jointly organised by the University Institute of European Studies of Turin and the International Labour Organization), as well as the Specialization Course in Intellectual Property (jointly organised by WIPO and the University of Turin).

He is member of AIPPI (Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle), ATRIP (International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property), ECTA (European Communities Trade Mark Association), EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property), LES (Licensing Executives Society), IPyard, ESIL (European Society of International Law), Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), BILA (British Italian Law Association), The Law Society of England and Wales and the Spinelli Network Group.

She is and a Honors graduate of Athens Law School (first of class). She is a holder of a LLM degree (Cambridge Law School, UK) a LLM degree from Yale Law School and a PhD on medical information law and ethics from the University of Athens. She was appointed Faculty Fellow at Harvard University, Center for Ethics and the Professions (2000-2001). She has been a NATO/an Onassis/a Rotary/an IKY/a Clare Hall (Cambridge, UK) and a Harvard scholar. She is an elected Co-Director the International Society for Ethics and Technology (2014-2018). She has authored five books, the latest being ‘A Defense of Intellectual Property Rights’, 2009, Edward Elgar Publishing (with Professor Richard Spinello) and has edited eight volumes on information law/ethics e.tc. She is also the author of more than 80 Greek and international publications on computer and information law/ethics, data protection, digital divide, library ethics, privacy medical/health law and others. She is a EU expert called in missions in Europe and beyond. She is the founder of the International Conference on Information Law and Ethics (ICIL) series, from 2008 onwards, of the Athens Data Protection Colloquium (with Dr. Fereniki Panagopoulou-Koutnatzi) and of the Medical Responsibility and Ethics (MRBE) conference series (with Dr. Fereniki Panagopoulou-Koutnatzi). She has been the organizer or numerous symposiums, seminars, colloquiums e.tc. She has delivered more than sixty speeches, presentations, lectures in Greece and abroad. She is the Head of the Research Team ‘Information: History, Regulation and Culture’.
Personal website: bottis.ihrc.gr

Bjorn Coene obtained his law degree (magna cum laude) in 2003 at the University of Ghent. In 2004, he obtained a master's degree in intellectual property law (magna cum laude) at the Catholic University of
Brussels. That same year, Bj?rn Coene was granted a scholarship by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) and started working as a researcher at the University of Ghent. During that time, in 2006 and 2007, he also performed research as a scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich. In April 2011, Bjorn Coene joined ICRI. He currently writes a doctoral thesis concerning 'The desirability of the investment protection schemes offered by the sui generis intellectual property rights concerning chips, computer programs and databases'.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2004: Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY of THESSALONIKI (tenuarship, since 2009-10)
1998: Lecturer
1995: Charged with Law Courses

ACADEMIC SPECIALISATION
Media Law and ethics, Copyright Law, Communication policy and culture

COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate
Media Ethics / Media Law / Copyright law / New Media Law and Ethics

Master
Communication Policy and Culture I (European Audiovisual policy)
Communication Policy and Culture II (Copyright, New media, Remix culture)

Dimitoglou Argiro has accomplished her doctoral studies at University of Macedonia, Department of Applied Informatics Thessalonica (2013).The topic of Dissertation: “Financial Regulations and Compliance analysis with Information Systems”, with supervisor Mr.Dritsakis Nicholas, Professor of the University of Macedonia.

She obtains Master’s Degree in Information Systems (MIS), at University of Macedonia (2000). She is a graduate of the University of Macedonia, Thessalonica BSc in Business Administration.

And, also, graduate of the  University of Thessalonica, Faculty of Education BA in Elementary Education.

She work as a Economist/Head of European Programmes & financing instruments in European Programmes Directorate and Funding, since 4/1997 to day, in EGNATIA ODOS S.A., company of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks.

She worked from 1995- 3/1997 as Head of Financial Department in Thessaloniki Technology Park Management & Development S.A.

Sabina Eftimova has been working as an assisstant professor at the Library Management Department of the State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (SULSIT). In 2012 she has gained PhD in scientific field “Book Science, Librarianship and Bibliography”. Her dissertation’s theme is “Bibliotherapy (History, Theory, Practice, Contemporaneity).
Dr. Eftimova lectures the following courses: „National bibliography” and “Information Resources”. She has created 2 disciplines – “Bibliotherapy” and “Library Psihology”. She is a co-complier in one collection and author of more than 40 articles.
She participates in projects under Ordinance № 9, and project for young scientists funded by NSF: "New policies for stimulating the reading. Research of the bookcrossing practices in Bulgaria". Dr. Eftimova has been involved as project coordinator of the scientific project „Analysis of the common practices in the use of products of intellectual property in university information environment” DMU 03/3, funded by the National Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science.
Eftimova is a member of the Association of university libraries and the Bulgarian Library and Information Association. Sabina Eftimova's research interests and publications are in the reading, bibliotherapy, the psychology and pedagogy of reading.

Dr. Gritzalis is a Professor of ICT Security with the Dept. of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece. He is also the Director of the Information Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection Research Group, as well as the Director of the Graduate Programme in Information Systems at AUEB. He holds a B.Sc. (Mathematics, Univ. of Patras), a M.Sc. (Computer Science, City University of New York) and a Ph.D. (Critical Information Systems Security, Univ. of the Aegean). Prof. Gritzalis has served as Associate Commissioner of the Greek Data Protection Commission and as the President of the Greek Computer Society. He is, also, the national representative of Greece to IFIP TC-11. His publication record includes include 10 books and more than 150 papers. His current research interests focus on security in ambient intelligence, security paradigms, privacy enhancing technologies, and critical ICT infrastructure protection

Academic Position
2013/08- Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy and Science & Department of Medical Humanities

Education
2013 Ph.D, Department of Philosophy, University at Albany, State University of New
York, US
2009 Master of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2006 Bachelor of Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2004 (Summer) Government Funded Exchange Student in Hong Kong Polytechnic
University

Research Interests
Kant (Theoretical and Practical), Analytic Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Medicine,
History of Philosophy, and Chinese Philosophy

Language
English (fluent), Mandarin (native speaker), German (reading knowledge with dictionary),
Cantonese (listening and reading).

Services
August, 2013- Chair, Association for faculties who have got Ph.Ds from abroad

Prof. Konstantinos Kalemis is an Instructor at the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government (E.K.D.D.A.) in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning and assigned at the Department of Primary Education (PTDE) in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has authored a large number of scientific articles, studies and papers in Educational Congress and Seminars. His interests focus on the introduction of New Technologies as an alternative teaching process and the design of new curriculum plans for the open and d-Learning. His research interests also include the education of immigrant ethnic minorities focusing on the gifted and talented students and aim to advance the theory and technology of natural language and knowledge processing, especially semantic analysis that bridges the gap between language and knowledge, by the novel use of both machine learning and inference methods; and to develop usable and competitive knowledge retrieval, question answering and textual entailment approaches enhanced by the semantic analysis techniques for providing context- and knowledge-aware intelligent services such as knowledge querying, delivering, assessing and sharing in education and business information systems.

Rositsa Krasteva has been working as an assisstant professor at the Computer Science Department of the State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (SULSIT). In 2012 she has gained PhD in scientific field “Theory of Scientific Information”. Her dissertation’s theme is “Model System for Quality Management and Scientific Information Structure (Academic Library)”.
She lectures the following courses: "Quality Management in Library and Information Activities", "Standardization in Library and Information Activities", "Information Resources", „Processing of Data and Documents“ and etc. in undergraduate programs. She is a complier of one collection and author of more than 19 articles.
She participates as an external consultant in projects under Ordinance № 9, and project for young scientists funded by NSF: "New policies for stimulating the reading. Research of the bookcrossing practices in Bulgaria" and „Analysis of the common practices in the use of products of intellectual property in university information environment” DMU 03/3, funded by the National Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science.
Dr. Krasteva is a member of the Technical Committee 16 „Archive, Librarianship and Information Activity“ of Bulgarian Institute for Standartization and  the Association of University Libraries in Bulgaria. Her research interests are in the modern trends in quality management, analytic-synthetic processing documents, standardization and developing of standards and standardization documents.

Professional Experience

Feb. 2011- … : Assistant Professor at Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Law, Public Law Department
Sept. 2011- Feb. 2011: Instructor at Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Law
July 2006 - Sept. 2011: Instructor at Başkent University Faculty of Law
Nov. 2002 – July 200: Research Assistant for general public law at Başkent University Faculty of Law
2002: Licence to practice as attorney at law

Education & Qualifications    

2010: Ph.D. Degree in Law-Social Sciences Institute, Ankara University, Turkey (thesis title: Personal Data Protection, grade: 3.81/4.00)
Sept.-Dec. 2008: Research on data protection & surveillance society issues at University of Cologne, Faculty of Law
Jan, 21- Feb, 8 2008: Participated in a continuing professional development in Data Protection and Freedom of Information via distance learning, The University of Edinburgh
2004: LL.M. Degree in Law-Social Sciences Institute, Ankara University, Turkey (thesis title: Freedom of Expression on the Internet, grade: 93.55/100)
2001: LL.B. Degree in Law-Başkent University Faculty of Law, Turkey (grade: 3.34/4.0, honour degree)
1997: High School Diploma, Ari College, Ankara, Turkey

Memberships

• The Internet Society (ISOC)
• Turkish Bar Association (Member of Human Rights Advisory Board)
• Bahcesehir University Faculty of Law Review (Member of Editorial Board)
• Istanbul Privacy Platform (IPP-Founder and Member of Advisory Board)
• Informatics Association of Turkey (Member of Working Group on Law)
• Internet Committee of Turkey (Member of Working group on Law)
• Asian Privacy Scholars Network (ASPN)
• Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD-German Academic Exchange Service) Freundes Kreis

List of Publications

A.    Books

• Data Protection, Turhan Publishers, Ankara 2010, XX+ 436 p.
• Prof. Dr. Ahmet Mumcu ile birlikte: İnsan Hakları ve Kamu Özgürlükleri, [Human Rights and Public Freedoms, with Prof. Dr. Ahmet Mumcu] Turhan Publishers, 6th ed. Ankara 2012 (5th ed. Ankara 2010; 4th ed. Ankara 2007; 3rd ed. Ankara 2005), XLI + 311 p.

B.    Book Chapters

• “TC Kimlik Numarası: Hukuksal Bir Değerlendirme, [ID Numbers in Turkey: A Legal Analyze], Türkiye’de Dijital Gözetim, TC Kimlik Numarasından E-Kimlik Kartlarına Yurttaşın Sayısal Bedenlenişi [Dijital Personifications of Citizens in Turkey, From Mernis to E-ID: Digital Body and digital Surveillance], Alternatif Bilişim Derneği, İstanbul 2012, p. 91-112. 
• Prof. Dr. Ahmet Mumcu ile birlikte: İnsan Hakları ve Kamu Özgürlükleri, [Human Rights and Public Freedoms, with Prof. Dr. Ahmet Mumcu] Anadolu University Publication, Eskişehir 2005, XIII + 264 s. (Chapters 10-12: p. 185-253).  [Scope of this book is also taught with Prof. Dr. Ahmet Mumcu in the course titled “Human Rights and Public Freedoms” at Anadolu University Open Education Faculty and broadcasted by TRT-4]. 
• “Yeni İletişim Teknolojilerinin Siyasal Sistem Üzerindeki Etkileri” [Impacts of new communication technologies on political system] Prof. Dr. Turgut Akıntürk’e Armağan [Attribute to Prof Dr. Turgut Akıntürk], Beta Publishers, İstanbul 2008, p. 693-717.

C.    Contributions and Articles

• “Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Hakkı” [Right of Data Protection], Güncel Hukuk [Contemporary Law Journal], Ocak 2014/1-121, s. 54-57.
• “Turkey's Data Protection Bill Now Being Studied by Ministers”, Privacy Laws&Business Data Protection  & Privacy Information Worlwide, Augost 2013, Y.26, S.124, s. 12-15.
• “Türkiye’de Kişisel Verilerin Korunmasına Yönelik Hukuksal Düzenlemeler” [Regulations about Personal Data Protection in Turkey], Giresun Barosu Bülteni [Giresun Bar Journal], İlkbahar 2013, Y.3, S. 7., s. 52-55.
• “Devlet Gözetimine Karşı Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi Kalkanı”, [The Shield of European Court of Human Rights against Surveillance of the State], Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi-Kazancı Hakemli Hukuk Dergisi, [Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Law-Kazancı Law Review],Y.2011, C.7, S.81-82; s. 7-61.
• “Anayasal Bir Hak: Kişisel Verilerin Korunması”, [A Constitutional Right: Data Protection], Bilişim [Journal of Informatics], Y. 2011, V. 128, p. 142-149.
• “Beyaz Perdede Kara Bir Dönemin Gölgesi: Modernite ve Holokostu Sinema Aracılığıyla Anlamak”, [Shadow of a Dark Era on the Silver Screen: Understanding Modernity and Holocaust by the Cinema] Türkiye Barolar Birliği Dergisi, [Union of Turkish Bar Associations Review], Y. 2010, V. 89, p. 323-354.
• “Gender Equality in the Constitution of the Republic of Turkey”, Ankara Bar Review, V. 1, I. 2 June 2008, p. 18-27.
• “AİHS’nin 10. Maddesi Işığında Nefret İçerikli ve Irkçı Nitelikli Düşünce Açıklamaları” [Hate Speech and Racist Expressions in the light of article 10 of ECHR], Türkiye Barolar Birliği Dergisi [Union of Turkish Bar Associations Review], Y. 20, V. 71, p. 174-200. 
• “Radyo Frekenaslı Tanımlama: Yaşamlarımızı Kolaylaştıran Yeni Bir Olanak mı, Kişisel Verilerimize Yönelen Yeni Bir Tehdit mi?” [Radio Frequency Identification: A new opportunity for our lives or a new threat to our personal data], Hukuk Dosyası [File of Law], Y. 1, I. 2, p. 11-18.

D.    Miscellaneous Publications

• “Şeffaf Yönetim ve Şeffaflaşmamış Birey, Bilgi Toplumunun İki Sütunu: Bilgi Edinme Hakkı ve Kişisel Verilerin Korunması” [Transparent Administrarion, Purified Individual, Two Colomn of the Information Society: Right to Information and Personal Data Protection, Şeffaf Gündem Dergisi [Transpatent Agenda Journal], January – March 2013, V. 5, p. 30-32.
• Several column writings in “Anadolu” [Anatolia] periodical which is published with the contribution of European Union Commission, 1996-2002.

Dr. Leandros Lefakis, graduated from the Law School of the University of Athens andreceived a postgraduate degree in International Business Transactions from the University of London with a scholarship from "Clara Abbott Foundation" and another postgraduate degree (LL.M) in Intellectual Property from the University of Kent. He also received a doctorate degree from the University of Athens regarding biotechnology patents and conducted postdoctoral studies in the area of human stem - cell patents. As a lawyer he gives advice in respect of a wide area of issues arising in multinational corporations' investments in Greece, coordinating legal due diligence teams and counseling on respective regulatory issues. He also advises local companies on ongoing corporate and industrial property issues and drafts and negotiates commercial contracts. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic intellectual Property Organization of the Greek Ministryof Culture and he represented Greece in many international organizations and European Union instruments. Concurrently, he teaches civil and company law at the Faculty of Regional Economic Development of the University of Central Greece. He has published three books related to biotechnology, stem - cell patents and bioethics, so as many articles in Greek, English and French.

Lecturer (disciplines: «Theory of State and Law», «Legal Ethic»), Department of Theory and History of the State and Law

The Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus

Master of Laws (master's thesis on «Legal regulation of transit in the EU»)

Research interests lie in the field of international legal regulation of cargo transit

Α list of some scientific publications:

Malashevich , V.A. The principle of freedom of transit in international law / V.A. Malashevich // Management problems. - 2010. - № 3 (36). - P. 139-141.

Malashevich, V.A. Legal basis for restricting the transit of goods in the Commonwealth of Independent States / V.A. Malashevich // Vestnik of the Supreme Economic Court of the Republic of Belarus. - 2010. - № 12 (237). - P. 139-143.

Malashevich, V.A. Legal regulation of freedom of transit of goods in the European Union / V.A. Malashevich // Problems of law-making and law enforcement in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe: Set of scientific art./ UE «Ekoperspektiva»; Br. Ed. NV Sil'chenko. – Grodno: Grodno State University, 2012 . - 400 p. - P. 103-106.

Malashevich, V.A. International legal regulation of transit of radioactive materials/ V.A. Malashevich // Theoretical, methodological and applied aspects of governance : Materials XVI Republican scientific-practical conference , Minsk, March 22, 2013 [ electronic resource ] / The Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus; Editorial Board .: A.N. Ryabova [ et al.] - Minsk : The Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus, 2013. - P. 274-275.

e-mail: victoria_au@mail.ru

Alessandro Mantelero is Aggregate Professor of Private Law at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Director of Privacy and Faculty Fellow at the Nexa Center for Internet and Society and Research Consultant at the Sino-Italian Research Center for Internet Torts at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology.

He is author of numerous publications and is currently focusing his studies on data protection, Big Data, on-line reputation, ISP liability and legal implications of cloud computing. He is involved in different national and international research programs. In 2012 he was Visiting Researcher at Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; in 2013 he was Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Visiting Professor at the Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology.

E-mail: alessandro.mantelero@polito.it
Personal web page: http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero

WORK EXPERIENCE

1996 to present

University of National and World Economy, Sofia, St. grad 1700

Occupation or position held:     

1996-2006 – Assistant Prof.,
2006 - 2012 – Assoc. Professor,
1996 -1998 – Scient.secretary of Intellectual property department,
2002 - present – member of the Council of Economic Faculty, UNWE
2002 – present – academic coordinator of WIPO’s university initiative for Bulgaria
2010- June, 2012 – consultant, coordinator and lecturer of EPO’s project ‘Dissemination of IP knowledge in universities’ for Bulgaria

Main activities and responsibilities: Responsible for lectures on the following academic subjects “Intellectual property”; “Marketing of intellectual products”; “Design management”, “Corporate culture  and communications”, “Biotechnological achievements”, “Actual problems of intellectual property”.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1984 - present

University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Economist, Lawyer

Main publications:
Books:
1. Markova, M., “Company design”, Univ. Publ. Comp.“Stopanstvo”, 2001
2. Markova, M., “Artistic property”, Univ. Publ. Comp.“Stopanstvo”, 2003
3. Markova, M. “Biotechnologies and biotechnological achievements”, IP Bulgaria, 2006
4. Markova, M., “Protection of industrial design in the country and abroad”, Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria and OHIM, 2008
5. Markova, M., Design management, Univ. Publ. Comp.“Stopanstvo”, 2010
6. Markova, M.  “Biotechnology, intellectual property, bioeconomy”, Univ. Publ. Comp. “Stopanstvo”, 2010

Articles and Records /most important for period 2009 - 2013/:
1. “Intellectual property – identification, legal and economic characteristics”, “Property and law”, 2009, n. 8
2. “Know-how as an object of intellectual property”, “Property and law”, 2010, n. 6
3. “Changes in the design regulation as an object of industrial property in Bulgaria”, ‘Property and Law’, 2011, n.1
4. "The digital business identity of the company as intellectual property", Property and Law, 2011, n. 12
5. “Product innovations as intellectual property”, Economic alternatives, 2012, n. 1
6. Biotechnological achievements as intellectual property, record for an international seminar of SLING, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2012
7. IP in the advertising industry, record for national IP seminar, UNWE, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2012
8. New Regulation for IPRights protection in EC, Property and Law, 2013, N 8

Dr Alan Mckenna is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent, UK, teaching Tort Law, and a Visiting Lecturer at City University, London, teaching Intellectual Property Law. He holds a Ph.d and LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Kent. His published work includes articles on communications convergence, online privacy, and computer waste. With Maria Anestopoulou he jointly wrote for the Association for Progressive Communication an Internet Rights Country Report on Greece. He will shortly have published a book entitled, 'A new human right to participate in the Information Society'. His current research interests include, online profiling and digital surveillance, negligently caused asbestos related diseases, and a human right to communicate.

She has studied Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She worked as a trainee lawyer in Larissa from 1998 to 2000, where she was awarded the Lawyer’s License by the Bar Association of the aforementioned city. In 2003, she transferred to the Bar Association of Athens and in 2005 to the Bar Association of Corfu, where she has been working as a lawyer till date.

She teaches Law in public and private post-secondary education institutions.

She is a Mediator, certified by CEDR and the Hellenic Ministry of Justice. She is also a Mediator Trainer certified by the Toolkit Company.

In October 2012, she was admitted to the Master's Program of Specialization in "Cultural Heritage Documents Management and New Technologies" of the Department of Archives, Library Science and Museum Studies of the Ionian University in Greece.

She is a member of the IHRC Research Team (Information: History, Regulation, Culture), and she has presented and published several papers in national and international conferences and scientific reviews.

Dr. Lilian Mitrou, born in Athens-Greece (1964), is Assistant Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering (University if the Aegean). She holds a PhD in Data Protection (Law School of Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt). L. Mitrou teaches electronic democracy, electronic governance,information law and data protection at the University of Athens (Dept of Law, Dept. of Political Sciences - Postgraduate Studies) as well as information law and electronic governance at the National Academy of Public Administration. She has served as a Member of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (1999-2003) and as Adviser to the Prime Minister in sectors of Information Society and Public Administration (1996 - 2004). From 1998 till 2004 she was the national representative in the EC- Committee on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data. She served as member of many Committees working on law proposals in the fields of data protection(transposition of Directives 95/46/EC, 97/66/EC and 02/58/EC), electronic government, electronic commerce etc. Her professional experience includes senior consulting and researcher positions in a number of private and public institutions. She published twelve books or chapters in books (in Greek, German and English) and many journal and national and international conference papers.

Professor in University of Minho, Law School, Portugal.
PhD in Labour Law, Minho University Law School, 2010.
Master in Labour Law, University of Coimbra, 2003.
Bachelor of Laws, Minho University Law School, 1999.
Lecturer at National and International Seminars, Academic Conferences, Masters and PhD.
Author of several publications, at national and international level, in books and articles, about Labour Law, European Labour Law, Equality and Nondiscrimination and Privacy and Data Protection.
Participation in International Projects.
Co-organization of the National Portuguese Congress of Labour Law since 2009.
Member of the Scientific Council of the Human Rights Center for Interdisciplinary Research.
Member of the Board of the Portuguese National Association of Labour Law.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Labour Law Review, Minerva– Revista de Estudos Laborais
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Review Scientia Iuridica.
Member of the Labour Studies Association.

Personal webpage: http://www.dh-cii.eu/en/researchers/48-teresa-alexandra-coelho-moreira

She is an attorney at law at the Bar Association of Thessaloniki since 2007 and at the Bar Association of Chalkidiki since 2012. She graduated from the Law School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2005 and concluded her postgraduate studies on Commercial and Economic Law at the same School in 2009. Currently, she is working on her doctoral thesis on personal data and e-commerce at the Applied Information Department, University of Macedonia.

She is legal advisor of the charitable association named “Penelope Katsea – Spandou” which grants scholarships for postgraduate studies since 2007, whereas she collaborates with the former Agricultural Bank (now Piraeus Bank) as an external legal associate since 2008.

Her research interests focus on conventions of buying and selling on Internet, e-banking, privacy of electronic communications and personal data protection, cookies and spamming, information technology law and cyberlaw.

Vincent C. Müller's research focuses on the nature and future of computational systems, particularly on the prospects of artificial intelligence. He is the coordinator of the European Network for Cognitive Systems, Robotics and Interaction (2009-2014) with over 900 members, funded by the European Union through two FP7 projects with 3.9 mil. € (www.eucognition.org). In this role, he also organises two large conferences each year. Separately, he organizes a series of conferences on the 'Theory and Philosophy of AI' ( www.pt-ai.org ).

Müller has published a number of articles on the philosophy of computing, the philosophy of AI and cognitive science, the philosophy of language, and related areas. He has edited several volumes on the theory of cognitive systems and artificial intelligence (more are forthcoming) and is preparing a monograph on the fundamental problems of AI and. He studied philosophy with cognitive science, linguistics and history at the universities of Marburg, Hamburg, London and Oxford.

More information: http://www.sophia.de/activities.htm

Fereniki Panagopoulou-Koutnatzi works as a legal Auditor at the Data Protection Agency in Greece. She has studied Law at the University of Athens (law degree and LL.M.) and the University of Humboldt in Berlin (PhD) and Public Health and Law at the Harvard University (M.P.H.). She has teaching experience at the Universities of Athens, Piraeus, and Peloponnese in Greece, the University of Berlin, and the Berlin School of Economics and Law (Main courses: Bioethics, Public Law, and American Law). She has published three books concerning bioethics, social networks and blogs and many papers regarding public law, new technologies, bioethics and medical law. She speaks English, Greek (mother tongue), German, French and Italian.

He is an Attorney-at-Law registered in Athens, Greece. He holds a law degree from Athens Law school and a graduate degree Master of Science from Boston and Harvard universities. He has, also, graduate studies at Stanford University upon Information technology and Law as well as The George Washington University upon Management. He's candidate for a PhD in Law at Athens Law School. He is an active participant in international fora upon issues of Information Technology & Law as well as Information Society. He is the Legal Lead for Creative Commons in Greece. (Further info at URL: http://www.marinos.com.gr )

Head of Unit, Statutory Entitlements, Social and medical affairs, Working Conditions, Court of Justice of the EU - Chairman, Management Committee, Health Insurance Scheme of the Institutions of the EU.
Diploma in Law, Postgraduate diploma, Law Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / LL.M. (by research and thesis) "Advanced Information Technology and Law", Dept. of Jurisprudence, The Queen’s University of Belfast.
Past:
- Barrister, Thessaloniki Bar (Member of the Legal Data Processing Committee 1987) / Lawyer to the European Patent Office (EPO). (outstanding since 1988 following recruitement by the Court of Justice of the E.U.)
- 1981-88 Researcher : experimental project INNOMOS - Legal Data Processing (directed by Prof Evrigenis and Assist. T. Passias) Law Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Section of legal data processing, Center for International and European Economic Law, Thessaloniki.(1987 Teaching in seminar "Computers and Law" by ELKEPA – Member, Working Group computerised systems in justice : Greek Ministry of Justice)

Since February 1988, Administrator, Court of justice of the EU
- 1988 Service of Legal Data Processing,
- 1990 Staff Department, Automation officer
1990 Head of the Section "Statutory Entitlements"
1991 Legal Counsel to the administration
- 1994 Library Division, Administrator, Automation officer.
- 2005 Civil service Tribunal, Tagaras chambers, Legal Secretary,

Member of:
"Society for Computers and Law", U.K.
"International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law", USA
"International federation of European Law"
"Internet Society (ISOC)" – candidate Management Board 2000 – member ISTF
(Internet Societal Task Force) - elected 2000: Internet Societal Steering Group (ISSG)
ISOC Chapter Luxembourg, Founding member. Treasurer 1999-2006.

Raoni Rajão is Senior Lecturer in Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Department of Production Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Milan-Bicocca, and an MSc and PhD from Lancaster University. His research focuses on the history and practices relating to the use of remote sensing technology and geographic information systems in the formulation and enforcement of deforestation control policies in the Brazilian Amazon.
Email: rajao@ufmg.br

Dr. Helen Rethimiotaki, born in Athens-Greece (1964) is a Lecturer at the Department of Law of the University of Athens, teaching Sociology of Law and Sociology since the year 2005. She is a graduated of the same Faculty and holds a PhD in Sociology of Law (Faculté Droit-Economie-Sciences sociales - Université Panthéon~Assas~Paris II). She is a lawyer, a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1990. She has worked as legal consultant of a bank’s commercial credit insurance company (1997-2005). She also was a Special Teaching Fellow at the Law Department of University of Athens (2001-2005). She is an author of five books or chapters in books and of various publications. Her research interests focus on political sociology of Law, i.e. professional deontology (doctor-patient relationship), bioethics and informatics as examples of social autoregulation combined with law or European legal integration and “postmodern” legal pluralism. Her research interests also include gender analysis and private power relationships focused on family law.

Vasiliki G. Samartzi is an attorney-at-law registered at the Athens Bar Association since 2006. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens at 2003. She received an LL.M in Commercial Law from the University of Bristol and an LL.M in Computer and Communications Law from the University College London (UCL). She is a Ph.D candidate in Information Technology Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.

Associate Professor Niloufer Selvadurai is a leading authority in the field of information technology law, having published extensively and contributed to a variety of funded research projects and government inquiries in the area. Niloufer is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Technology Policy and Law and the Telecommunications Editor of the Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law. Prior to joining academia, Niloufer was admitted to the Supreme Court and practiced at Ashurst, a leading corporate law firm in Australia.

Personal webpage:
http://www.law.mq.edu.au/staff/academic_staff/niloufer_selvadurai/

Tatiana Synodinοu obtained her law degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She completed her postgraduate studies at the University Aix-Marseille III and her doctoral and postdoctoral studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki receiving fellowships from the Greek Scholarship Foundation and by the Committee of Research of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Prior to her appointment as Assistant Professor at the University of Cyprus, Tatiana Synodinou worked as scientific collaborator with teaching duties at the Faculty of Law of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2001-2004) and at the Interdisciplinary postgraduate program of “Informatics and Management” of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She also worked as a full-time Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Mass Media of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Department of Accounting and Finance of the University of Macedonia, as a short- time Visiting Lecturer at the postgraduate program “Μ2 Recherche Droit de Propriété Intellectuelle” of the University of Nantes and as a scientific collaborator to the Centre of International and European Economic Law.

Dr. Synodinou has been a member of the Bar Office of Thessaloniki since 2000.
She has worked as a short time expert to EU twinning projects and was a member of the e-business Advisory Board for the study “Intellectual Property for ICT producing SMEs” in the context of the the "Sectoral e-Business Watch" 2007-2008.
She is a case law reporter for “Kluwer Law International” to the legal database «Kluwer EU IP Cases» and a contributor to Kluwer Copyright Blog.
She has also been a National expert for the Public Domain Calculator project, Europeana Connect (www.outofcopyright.eu)
She has participated as a speaker to numerous conferences-study days-seminars. She has been the main organizer of the International Conference “Towards a European Copyright Code?” which was held on April 14-15, 2011 at the University of Cyprus.

Ivan Trenchev has been working as Assoc. Professor in Department “Informatics” of the South West University “Neofit Rilski”  since 2011.

He graduated in Mathematics and Finance from the SWU “Neofit Rilski” in 1998. Dr. Trenchev has obtained his PhD degree in Bioinformatics in 2007 from Centre for Advanced Bioinformatics Research for PHD students at the SWU “Neofit Rilski”. His Dissertation’s theme’s: „Mathematical Methods of Investigation on the Optimality for Contemporary Genetic Code”.

He creates many different disciplines – “Information technologies”, “Mathematical Foundation of Computer Graphics”, “Programing with R Language”, “Mathematical Foundation of Quantum Mechanics” and “Econometrics”. Ivan Trenchev is an author of the monographs “Introduction in Matlab” (2011) and “Neural Networks” (2012) and more than 30 articles.

Trenchev has been involved as coordinator in more than 5 national and international projects. At the moment he is a project coordinator of the Scientific Projects "Enhancement of the Competitiveness and Restructuring of the Food Subsectors Through Benchmarking” (F.IND. CONSULTING) and “Interregional Cooperation At Scientific Computing In Interdisciplinary Science” (ICoSCIS), funded by the European Territorial Cooperation Programme “Greece-Bulgaria 2007-2013”.

Tereza Trencheva has been working as Assistant Professor of Library Management Department of the State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (SULSIT) since 2009.

She graduated in Library and Information Sciences from the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in 2002. Dr. Trencheva has obtained her PhD degree in Theory of Scientific Information in 2011 from Centre for Scientific Research and Training for PHD students at the State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies. Her Dissertation’s theme’s: „Intellectual Property of Information Resources in Internet”.

She creates 5 different disciplines – “Information resources”, “Intellectual property”, “Intellectual Property in Internet”, “Social networks and Internet”, “Law, Media and Advertisement”. Tereza Trencheva is an author of the monograph “Open Access to Scientific Information” (2013), one collection and more than 40 articles.

Dr. Trencheva has been involved as project planner and coordinator in more than 10 national and international projects. At the moment she is a project manager of the scientific project "Analysis of the Common Practices in the Use of Products of Intellectual Property in University Information Environment", funded by the National Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science in the competition "Young Scientists". She has developed and coordinated partnerships with more national and international institutions related with intellectual property rights.

Tereza Trencheva is a Member of Informing Science Institute (USA); Bulgarian Association of Intellectual Property Teachers, Union of Scientists in Bulgaria; Association of University Libraries. She is a peer reviewer of many international conferences in the field informing science such as InSite and e-Society Conferences.

Tereza Trencheva is often invited as a speaker or expert at International Conferences to present her IP experiences and the European and national projects in which she is involved.

Mania Tsoumita, a Greek qualified lawyer, obtained her LL.B from Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki and her LL.M in Copyright and Trademark Law from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Before the establishment of ''Tsoumita & Associates Anwaltskanzlei-Law Offices'' in 2011, Mania worked in Berlin and Athens as lawyer. Her expertise lies primarily in corporate and commercial matters as well as in IP law. She is fluent in English and German and understands Spanish as well. Mania is listed as a leading trademark practitioner in the 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 editions of ''World Trademark Review'' (WTR) 1000, the definitive guide to trademark legal services, and is also registered with the list of the German Embassy in Athens as a recommended German speaking lawyer.

Mania contributed chapters to the Invest Guide Greece of the German-Greek Chamber of Industry and Commerce, to A to Z World Business/World Trade Press publicaton as well as to Multilaw International Contributions (Thomson Reuters).

Personal website:http://www.tsoumita.com

EDUCATION
December 2011 – 11.2.2014.
Place of education: Rijeka, Croatia
Name and type of organisation providing education: Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Croatia, Postgraduate Specialist Study “Law of European
Integration”
Title or qualification awarded: University specialist of the European integration (univ. spec. iur.)

October 2005 – October 2010
Place of education: Rijeka, Croatia
Name and type of organisation providing education: Faculty of Law University in Rijeka, Croatia
Title or qualification awarded: Master of Laws (mag. iur.)

September 2001 – June 2005
Place of education: Opatija, Croatia
Name and type of organisation providing education: Gymnasium “Eugen Kumičić” Opatija, Croatia

WORK EXPERIENCE
January 10, 2011 - present
Name and address of employer: Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Type of business or sector: Law (Private International Law, European Private Law)
Occupation or position held: Teaching assistant at the Department of Private International and European Law
Main activities and responsibilities: scientific research, teaching, other duties under mentor’s supervision

List of Publications
1. VRBLJANAC, Danijela, The “Lis Pendens” Rule in European Private International Law and its Relation to the Rule on Choice of Court Agreements, in: GIEGERICH,Thomas/ GEORGIEVSKI, Sašo/MEŠKIĆ, Zlatan/POPOVIĆ, Dušan/ZDRAVEVA, Neda/CAKA, Fjoralba/FRÖHLICH, Mareike (eds.), SEE-LAW NET: Networking of Lawyers in Advanced Teaching and Research of EU Law post-Lisbon, Outcome of the SEE Graduates EU Law Teaching & Research Academy Collection of Papers, 2013, pp. 153-162

2. KUNDA, Ivana/VRBLJANAC, Danijela, Translation of Selected Judgments of the Court of EU/Prijevodi izabranih presuda Suda EU-a, in: TOMLJENOVIĆ, Vesna/KUNDA, Ivana (eds.), The Brussels I Regulation: Challenges for Croatian Judiciary/Uredba Bruxelles I: Izazovi hrvatskom pravosuđu, Faculty of Law in Rijeka, 2012, pp. 245-333

3. KUNDA, Ivana/VRBLJANAC, Danijela, Law Applicable to the Intellectual Property Contracts – from Croatian PIL Act to Rome I Regulation (original title in Croatian: Pravo mjerodavno za ugovore o intelektualnom vlasništvu – od ZRSZ-a do Uredbe Rim I) in: VELADŽIĆ, Nevzet /FINDRIK, Nikola /RAMIĆ, Ermina (eds.), Collected Papers from International Scientific Conference Bosnia and Herzegovina and Euro - Atlantic
Integrations - Challenges and Perspectives (original title in Croatian: Zbornik radova međunarodne naučne konferencije Bosna i Hercegovina i euro-atlantske integracije - trenutni izazovi i perspective), 2012, pp. 318-333

4. VRBLJANAC, Danijela, Judgment C-495/10 of the Court of EU on Manufacturer’s Liability for Defective Products (original title in Croatian: Presuda Suda Europske unije C-495/10 vezana uz odgovornost proizvođača za neispravnost proizvoda), Nova pravna revija, Vol. 4, 2012, pp. 52-55

5. VRBLJANAC, Danijela, Judgments of the European Court Regarding Consumer Protection Law (II) (original title in Croatian: Presude Europskog suda vezane uz pravo zaštite potrošača (II)) in: BODIROGA-VUKOBRAT, Nada/ĐERĐA, Dario/POŠČIĆ, Ana (eds.), Collected Judgments of the European Court (Collection of Recent Case Law) (original title in Croatian: Zbirka presuda Europskog suda (Izbor recentne prakse)),
Inženjerski biro d.d., 2011, pp. 350-359

6. VRBLJANAC, Danijela, Judgments of the European Court Regarding Consumer Protection Law (original title in Croatian: Presude Europskog suda vezane uz pravo zaštite potrošača), Hrvatska pravna revija, Vol. 11, No. 7-8, 2011, pp. 96-99

Georgios Yannopoulos (born Athens, 1964) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Law of the University of Athens, teaching Legal Informatics. He is a graduate of the same Faculty (1988) and holds interdisciplinary qualifications in Computer Programming (1986) and Systems Analysis (1987). He has accomplished a PhD (1996, Greek State Scholarship) and has conducted post-doctoral research (1997), at Queen Mary College, University of London. In 1996-97 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London and in 1998 a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster. From 1999 to 2004 he was a Special Teaching Fellow at the University of Athens. He is the author of two books and various publications relating to substantive IT Law and Computer Applications in Law. His research interests include Internet Law and Regulation, the Liability of Intermediaries, Access to Legal Information, Legal Databases and Legal Expert Systems. He is a Lawyer (admitted 1990, Athens Bar Association), currently counselling a bank and has worked in telecommunications (OTE SA) and the Organising Committee of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.