Kostas Marias is an Associate Professor in Image Processing at the Informatics Engineering Department of the Technological Educational Institute Of Crete and since 2010 he is the Head and Founder of the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory at FORTH-ICS (previously Biomedical Informatics Laboratory). Previously he was a Principal Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS-FORTH) since 2006. During 2000-2002, he worked as a Researcher at the University of Oxford and from 2003-2006 as Associated Researcher at FORTH-ICS. He was the coordinator two EC projects on cancer modelling while during 2010-2015 actively participated in several other EC funded projects developing ICT technology focusing on medical image processing and personalized medicine. He coordinated the development of a wide range of image analysis and modelling tools designed for the clinical setting within the wider Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) EC initiative and has published more than 160 papers in international journals, books and conference proceedings focusing on medical image analysis, biomedical informatics and modelling for personalized medicine.