Manolis Terrovitis is a post doc fellow at the Information Management Systems Institute (IMSI) of the Research and Innovation Centre in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies "Athena". He has received his phd in 2007 from the National Technical University of Athens, under the supervision of prof. Timos Sellis and he has spent the following year (2007-2008) as a post-doc research in The University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with prof. Nikos Mamoulis. His main research interests lie in the areas of privacy and indexing for containment queries. He is also interested in the management of spatiotemporal data, in ETL modelling and pattern bases.