Dr. Stamatia Rizou holds a Diploma from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at National Technical University of Athens and a PhD from the University of Stuttgart. Since 2012, she works as a researcher/project manager at the R&D Department of Singular Logic. Her research interests lie in the areas of Data management, Cloud computing, Internet of Things and its applications. She has been project coordinator, technical coordinator and/or exploitation manager of several European funded R&D projects in the above-mentioned areas. She has also been industrial supervisor of 4 PhD students, and she has co-authored more than 30 research publications.