Dr Vavourakis previously worked as a Senior Research Associate and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at UCL's Centre for Medical Image Computing, a Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate at UCY's Polytechnic School, and as a post-doctoral fellow at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas. Dr Vavourakis holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a Diploma in Aeronautics, awarded by the University of Patras. He is also a member of the International Association of Computational Mechanics, the UK Association for Computational Mechanics, the Technical Chamber of Greece, and the Marie Curie Alumni Association.