Professor in urban planning and history at the National Polytechnic School in Athens, director of the Urban Environment Lab of the same School, he is a renowned specialist in industrial and port heritage. Among his major works are to be found Ports and People in the Archipelago of Piracy, Odysseas Press, Athens 1997 (in Greek) and Mines in the Aegean. Industrial Archaeology in Greece (ed.), Melissa Press, Athens, 2010 (in Greek). He is also an intellectual who is actively involved in the promotion of human rights in the Eastern Mediterranean and, more recently, in refugee assistance programs in Greece.