Education:

PhD in Remote Sensing: University of Surrey, Department of Civil Engineering, UK. (1996-1999),

MPhil in Remote Sensing: University of Surrey, Department of Civil Engineering, UK. (1996-1997),

BEng (Honours) in Civil Engineering (First Class Award): University of Surrey, Department of Civil Engineering, UK. (1994-1996),

Higher National Diploma in Civil Engineering (Distinction): Higher Technical Institute, Cyprus (1989-1992), MSc in Real Estate & Property Management (Distinction): University of Salford, UK (2005-2007)

Professional Background:

He is a Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics of the Cyprus University of Technology. He is the Managing Director of the ERATOSTHENES CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE / ERATOSTHENES CoE https://www.eratosthenes.org.cy. He is the member of the Board oF ‘The Cyprus Agency of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education (CYQAA)’ (https://www.dipae.ac.cy/). Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis was the Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs of the Cyprus University of Technology (2016-2019).   He was the Chair of the Department of Civil Eng. and Geomatics from 2011 to 2015.  He was the member of the National Experts appointed by the Cyprus Government for investigating the potential of Cyprus to join the European Space Agency (ESA) on 2009. He appointed from the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation as a national delegate/contact point for the FP7 framework in the 'SPACE' on 2011. He has been nominated and elected as SPIE Senior member 2014 for his achievements in remote sensing. He worked in the past at the University of Southampton (UK), University of Surrey (UK) and Frederick Institute of Technology (CY). He worked also in the construction industry (roadworks, highway engineering, project management) a well in the remote sensing industry. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Cyprus (ETEK),  EARSeL (national representative), ISPRS, NEREUS. He is the leader of the Mediterranean Regional Information Network (MedRIN) GOFC/GOLD/ NASA.

He is the first appointed staff at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics and he teaches several modules at undergraduate (e.g. Construction Management, Project Management, Remote Sensing I, Remote Sensing II, Geodesy I, Geodesy II, Summer Field Exercises in Special Geoinformatics: Remote Sensing,  Highway Engineering, Transport Planning, Radiometry and Microwave Remote Sensing and postgraduate level (e.g. Remote Sensing and Earth Observation, Advanced Remote Sensing Applications, Research Methods & Specializations in Geoinformatics etc.)

Research: He has significant experience in research projects that include earth observation, remote sensing, GIS, field spectroscopy, geomatics and civil engineering. He has more than 450 publications in journals, conference proceedings, and chapters in books and monographs in the field of remote sensing and GIS. He has supervised 13 PhD researchers and 150 bachelor and master final year projects and dissertations in the fields of remote sensing, GIS, civil engineering, surveying engineering and geomatics. He is the co-coordinator of MSc in Geo-informatics and Geospatial Technologies at CUT. He has participated in more than 70 funded projects and since his appointment at the CUT (2007) (> 30 research projects as a coordinator) with funding sources from FP6, FP7, Horizon 2020, Interreg, ECHO, Eureka, Life +, MED, Marie Curie, ERASMUS+, COST, ESA, EC regional funds, national funds such as the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation (CRPF) and industry. He is the member of the editorial team of the 'Open Geosciences' and MDPI Remote Sensing, MPPI Heritage, MDPI Sensors etc.

He is the coordinator of the ‘EXCELSIOR’ H2020 Teaming Project (https://www.excelsior2020.eu). The EXCELSIOR (ERATOSTHENES: EΧcellence Research Centre for Earth Surveillance and Space-Based Monitoring of the Environment) is a newly granted project from the Horizon 2020 Framework for Research and Innovation of the European Union (Grant Agreement number: 857510). Through the EXCELSIOR Horizon 2020 Widespread Teaming Phase 2 project, a new, autonomous and self-sustained Centre of Excellence, the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence (ECoE) has been established based on the existing 12 years of the research capacity of the Remote Sensing and Geo-Environment Lab of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics of the Cyprus University of Technology. The total funding of the EXCELSIOR H2020 Teaming project is: 15 million Euros from EC, 15 million Euros from the Republic of Cyprus and 8 million Euros from the Cyprus University of Technology.