Michael Hatzopoulos is currently a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens.

He has a Diploma in Mathematics from the University of Athens (1971) and an MSc and a PhD in Computer Science from Loughborough University of Technology (in 1972 and 1974 respectively). He has participated in many R&D projects, both National and European Union. He is the project coordinator for DRIVER, DRIVER II and OpenAIRE.

His research interests are Agent Technology, Multimedia Databases, Multimedia Indexing, Statistical Databases, Performance Issues in the WEB, and Physical Database Design. He is a referee in many scientific journals and conferences and for NSF proposals and has worked as a referee and evaluator many times for the European Union (DGIII and DGXIII).