Random Fields for Spatial Data Modeling

D. T. Hristopulos holds a Dipl. Eng. in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1985) and a PhD in Physics from Princeton University, USA (1991). His advisor at Princeton was Nobel laureate Prof. P.W. Anderson. D. T. Hristopulos worked for 7 years at the Dept. of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, USA), and for 2 years at the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada – PAPRICAN (Pointe-Claire, Québec) before moving to the Technical University of Crete in 2002. For research conducted at PAPRICAN Hristopulos and Uesaka were awarded the 2003 Johannes A. Van den Akker Prize for Advances in Paper Physics.
D. T. Hristopulos has more than 15 years of expertise in Geostatistics and mathematical modelling. His expertise includes the development of new geostatistical methods, algorithms for the simulation and interpolation of scattered data, analysis of mechanical properties and fracture of heterogeneous media, and applications of statistical physics in spatial analysis. In 2003 D. Hristopulos proposed a flexible and computationally efficient geostatistical model (Spartan Spatial Random Fields) with applications in automatic mapping of environmental processes and the simulation of geological spatial structures.
D. T. Hristopulos is on the editorial board of the journal Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, published by Springer. He also participates on organizing committees of international conferences on statistics, geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical physics (e.g., statGIS 2006, 2007, 2009, Sigma Phi 2008, 2011, Interpore 2011). D. T. Hristopulos actively pursues innovative research in the framework of European projects. Research results are presented by him and his group in various conferences and seminars in Europe (e.g. European Geophysical Union Assemblies, GeoENV, etc) and the USA (e.g. Univ. of North Carolina, Johns Hopkins Univ., etc).  The Marie Curie project SPATSTAT (2005-2008), coordinated by D. T. Hristopulos was selected by the European Commission as a success story and highlighted in the special edition “Marie Curie Actions: Inspiring Researchers”, European Commission, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2010 ISBN 978-92-79-14328-1. 

D. T. Hristopulos has coauthored 75 scientific research papers in international journals (ISI Web of Knowledge database), 39 papers in proceedings of international conferences, 80 international conference abstracts, and the book Spatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling (Kluwer, Boston, 1998).

D. T. Hristopulos is on the editorial boards of the journals Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, published by Springer and Computers and Geosciences, published by Elsevier.