Dr. Antonios Paschalis is Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications of the University of Athens, Director of the Digital Systems and Computer Architecture Laboratory (DSCAL), Director of the Interdisciplinary MSc in Space Technologies, Applications and Services (STAR), academic member of the si-Cluster Board, and has served as a member of the Board of the Hellenic Space Agency, member of the provisional assembly that established the new Department of Aerospace Science and Technology of the UOA, and President of the Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications of the UCA (1916-1920).

Dr. Paschalis was born in 1960, received a B.Sc. in Physical Sciences in 1982, an M.Sc. in Electronic Automation and a Ph.D. in High Reliability Computing with a fellowship from the National Research Centre for Computer Science “Demokritos” in 1987, all from the Department of Physics of the NKUA. He has over 10 years of experience in designing on-board payload data processing units for space applications. He is a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society.