Vasilios Andrikopoulos is assistant professor at the University of Groningen, where he is a member of the Software Engineering and Architecture group in the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. His research interests are in the area of software architectures for service-oriented, cloud-based, and hybrid systems and infrastructures, with a focus on the technical and economic sustainability of these systems. He received his PhD from Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and he has worked as a post-doc for both Tilburg University and the University of Stuttgart. He has experience in teaching database systems, software modeling and programming, business process management and integration, service engineering, cloud computing, web engineering, and computer architecture. He has participated in a number of EU-funded projects, including the Network of Excellence S-Cube.