Konstantinos Vogklis has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Tourism at the Ionian University, specializing in "Digital Technologies in Tourism". In the past, he has worked as an external lecturer at various universities and technological institutes in Greece, and since 2012 he has been employed as a Lead Data Scientist at Nodalpoint LTD. As a researcher, he has participated in several European and national research projects and has contributed to the publication of open-source scientific software. His research interests include the development of optimization algorithms, big data analytics, and high-performance machine learning techniques, with a focus on forecasting applications, tourism product analysis, and image and audio processing.