GiorgosAlexiou holds a Degree in Cultural Informatics from the University of the Aegean and a M.Sc. in Web Science from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From 2011, he is a research associate of the Multimedia Technology Laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens, where he is mainly focusing on research projects and publications on Linked Data, Semantic Web, Business Intelligence, as well as on infrastructure and software development. Besides that, from 2014, he is a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of prof. Vassili Loumos and he is also tutoring (Ontology Engineering, Linked Data, RDF/SPARQL) the course <> at the Engineering-Economic Systems MBA program.Along with that, he has extensive experience in Semantic Web (web 3.0) technologies, knowledge engineering, system administration and cloud computing infrastructure. He is currently a research assistant in the Information Management Systems Institute (IMSI) of R.C. ATHENA, where he works on Linked Data, Entity/Record Matching and Multidimensional Data, since 2013.Over the recent years, he has worked as a software developer (internship) at the Information Systems Laboratory at the Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (I.S.L./FO.R.T.H.) at the <> platform project and he was among the core engineers of the <> project, the first effort to semantically structure, interlink and publish government-spending data as Linked Open Data in Greece.