Serafeim Chatzopoulos

Serafeim Chatzopoulos is a Researcher at the Information Management Systems Institute (IMSI) of the ATHENA Research Center since 2014 and a software engineer at OpenAIRE AMKE since 2022. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of the Peloponnese (2022), an MSc in Computer Systems, and a BSc in Informatics and Telecommunications from the University of Athens. His research focuses on data mining, scientific databases, scientometrics, and big data management, with notable contributions to systems like OpenAIRE Graph and BIP! Finder.

His work emphasizes improving academic search engines, citation analysis, and researcher assessment tools. Key projects include developing algorithms for expert recommendation (VeTo toolkit), impact-based literature search (BIP! Finder), and scalable data science tools like SciNeM and SmartDataLake. He has collaborated on EU and national research initiatives, leveraging technologies such as Apache Spark, Java, and React.js.

Chatzopoulos has co-authored over 30 publications in venues like TPDL, WWW, and VLDB, addressing challenges in scientific impact measurement, metadata integration, and open science infrastructure. His PhD dissertation explored data mining in scholarly networks under Prof. Christos Tryfonopoulos' supervision. He remains active in advancing tools for academic transparency and reproducibility, including narrative CV frameworks and article deduplication systems.