Congratulations Dr Kourtesis!

Congratulations are in order for Dimitrios Kourtesis, who recently defended successfully and was awarded his PhD degree on ‘Policy-driven governance in cloud service ecosystems’.

Congratulations also go to his supervisors, Dr Iraklis Paraskakis and Dr Anthony Simons for their great work and support. A special thanks also for their thorough work to Professor Gordon Blair and Professor Petros Kefalas, who were his examiners.

Dr Kourtesis commented: “The way we create software is continuously evolving and cloud computing has been a major force shaping this evolution. Software is increasingly co-created by ecosystems of collaborating organisations which work with reusable software building blocks on top of a shared cloud-based platform. This model of software co-creation takes the age-old challenge of ensuring software reliability to a whole new level of complexity. My research framed a new way of thinking about the critical problem of governance in such ecosystems and proposed a new way of engineering governance support systems. It has been an intellectually stimulating and rewarding journey that I wouldn’t have been able to complete without the great support of my PhD supervisors. I am also grateful to SEERC for awarding the full tuition fee scholarship that supported this research.”

Dimitrios Kourtesis had earlier studied at the University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College, earning a BSc(Hons) in Computer Science and an MSc(Distinction) in Software Engineering and Telecommunications. He worked as a research associate at SEERC from 2006 to 2013 and as an independent consultant in industrial R&D projects from 2013 onwards. He is co-founder of award-winning Goodvidio, a venture-backed marketing technology startup which has recently gone through two rounds of VC financing by Openfund and the National Bank of Greece, to the total of €800,000 in seed equity investment.