Dr. Ioannis (Ion) Pagkalos is a Computer Scientist and an Associate Professor at the Department of Nutritional Sciences & Dietetics of the International Hellenic University, teaching Nutrition Informatics, e-Health & e-Government. He is the founder and director of the Nutrition Information Systems Laboratory (NISLAB).
He has over 20 years of experience as a senior researcher in designing, implementing and managing IT solutions for more than 35 EU- and state-funded research projects as well as large-scale cross-border pilots in the areas of e-Health, e-Government and Nutrition Informatics (e.g. WHO COSI, JANPA, epSOS, PROTEIN, BigO, e-SENS, e-CODEX, EXEC, CEF Health etc.).
His current research interests include the applications (and implications) of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in interdisciplinary spaces, with a particular interest in:
- Classic and Semantic Web Technologies (Web Apps, Ontologies, Data Science)
- Nutrition Information Systems (Software, Databases)
- e-Health (EHR, cross-border interoperability)
- e-Government (digitisation, provenance, transport, reliability, testing)
- ICT-assisted Energy Intake and Physical activity assessment (e.g. wearable sensors)
- Online Social Networks and novel forms of digital health interventions