I am an Associate Professor in Statistics at the 
Department
              of Mathematical Sciences at 
Durham
            University in UK. 
          
          I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the 
Department
              of Mathematics of the 
Purdue
              University, and as a postdoctoral researcher in the 
Uncertainty Quantification
              group in the 
Pacific
              Northwest National Laboratory in USA. 
          
          I hold a PhD degree in Mathematics (Statistics) from the 
School
              of Mathematics at the 
University
              of Bristol, and a BSc degree in Statistics from the 
Department of
              Statistics at the 
Athens
              University of Economical and Business studies. 
          
          I am a Bayesian statistician with particular research interests in the
          development of methods for statistical modelling to address problems
          in uncertainty quantification and spatial statistics,  statistical
          computing to facilitate inference in complex statistical models, and
          statistical machine learning. 
          
          A number of my recent research projects/developments aim to address
          modern statistical challenges such as `Big Data' and High-Dimensional
          problems one can meet in real applications, while they can be
          implemented in parallel computing environments.