Dr Nicholaos Petalidis received his BSc degree from the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete, in 1993. While there he also worked for the Foundation for Research and Technology and the Computing Centre as a member of the networking team.

In 1994 he received his MPhil degree from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and in 1999 his PhD Degree from the University of Brighton, UK. His work concetrated on the formal specification and verification of time-critical protocols.

Dr Petalidis has worked for more than ten years as a consultant, software engineer and software project manager in Greece and abroad. He is currently working as a software engineering consultant for Voyager Software and Akoo International.