Christos Vasilakos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean. He is an Environmental Scientist with a Ph.D. in Fire Risk Assessment, specializing in GIS, Remote Sensing, and Neural Networks. From 1999 to 2000, he collaborated as a GIS specialist with the Forest Research Institute of the National Agricultural Research Foundation. In 2000, he was appointed an external researcher at the National Observatory of Athens as part of the THEMA project, with a portion of his work conducted at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Germany. Since 2002, he has been affiliated with the University of the Aegean, where he has worked as a Senior Research Scientist on 13 research projects funded by the EU, Greece, and private-sector initiatives. His research primarily focuses on geoinformatics and artificial intelligence applications in wildfire management and other domains. His main research interests include Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Artificial Intelligence, Natural Hazards, and Geo-informatics Applications. In 2024, he was awarded an MSc in Precision Farming, a joint degree from the Hellenic Open University and the University of Patras. Since 2014, he has taught various courses in Geo-Informatics (including Remote Sensing, GIS, and Photogrammetry) at the Department of Geography and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate theses. He is the author and co-author of more than 60 scientific articles and book chapters. Additionally, he has served as a peer reviewer for several international scientific journals in the field of Geo-Informatics and has been invited to act as an evaluator for several Greek and EU projects.

Recent publications

  1. Karagiannidou, M., Vasilakos, C., Kokinou, E., & Gerarchakis, N. (2026). High-Resolution Eutrophication Mapping Using Multispectral UAV Imagery and Unsupervised Classification: Assessment in the Almyros Stream (Crete, Greece). Remote Sensing, 18(3), 501.
  2. Papachrysou, P., & Vasilakos, C. (2026). Quality of Life Indicators and Geospatial Methods Across Multiple Spatial Scales: A Systematic Review. Urban Science, 10(1), 52.
  3. Palaiologou, P., Giannakopoulos, C., Vasilakos, C., Sakellariou, S., Rodrigues, M., Karali, A., Katavoutas, G., Varotsos, K. V., Roussou, O., Gelabert, P. J., Jiménez-Ruano, A., Lemesios, G., Trasobares, A., Finney, M., & Kalabokidis, K. (2026). A dataset to support wildland fire and fuel management in Greece created with stochastic wildfire simulations. Data in Brief, 64, 112304
  4. Asvestas, A., Vasilakos, C. (2025). Multi-Sensor UAV Remote Sensing Workflow for Detecting Buried Archaeological Features at Thermi (Lesvos) and Its Application to Arisvi (Lesvos). Proc. 9th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry (HSA), Patras, 5-8 November, 2025.
  5. Παπαχρυσού, Π., Βασιλάκος, Χ. (2025). Ανίχνευση της Αστικής Διάχυσης με Τεχνητά Νευρωνικά Δίκτυα (ΑΝΝ) σε Δορυφορικές Εικόνες στην Κλίμακα του Πολεοδομικού Σχεδιασμού της Μυτιλήνης. Στα Πρακτικά του 7ου Πανελληνίου Συνεδρίου Πολεοδομίας Χωροταξίας & Περιφερειακής Ανάπτυξης. 25/9-28/9 2025 Βόλος.
  6. Soulakellis, N., Vasilakos, C., Moysidou, L., Palaiologou, P., Kalabokidis, K. (2025). OptiFuel A Multi-Criteria WebGIS Tool for Optimizing Fuel Treatment Scenarios in Fire-Prone Landscapes. In Book of Abstracts of 15th International Conference of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) Society (IDRiM2025), titled “Advancing disaster risk reduction in islands and remote areas, Sept 28- Oct 1 2025, Bathy, Samos, Greece. Pp. 275-276.
  7. Asvestas, A., Vasilakos, C. (2025). Integrating UAV Multi-Sensor Data for Archaeological Detection at Thermi, Lesvos. Proc. 2025 Panhellenic Conference of Hellenic Society for Non-Destructive Testing, ORMYLIA Foundation, Ormylia Chalkidiki, 9-11 May 2025.
  8. Kokolakis, S., Kokinou, E., Karagiannidou, M., Gerarchakis, N., Vasilakos, C., Kotti, M., & Chronaki, C. (2025). From Space to Stream: Combining Remote Sensing and In Situ Techniques for Comprehensive Stream Health Assessment. Remote Sensing, 17(9), 1532.
  9. García-Ontiyuelo, M., Acuña-Alonso, C., Vasilakos, C., & Álvarez, X. (2024). Strategies for detecting land-use change on the River Tea SCI ecological corridor via satellite images. In Science of The Total Environment (Vol. 957, p. 177507). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177507
  10. Vasilakos, C., & Verykios, V. S. (2024). Burned Olive Trees Identification with a Deep Learning Approach in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Images. In Remote Sensing (Vol. 16, Issue 23, p. 4531). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16234531
  11. Chroni, A., Vasilakos, C., Christaki, M., & Soulakellis, N. (2024). Fusing Multispectral and LiDAR Data for CNN-Based Semantic Segmentation in Semi-Arid Mediterranean Environments: Land Cover Classification and Analysis. In Remote Sensing (Vol. 16, Issue 15, p. 2729). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16152729