George Kakarontzas has a PhD with honors in Quality Assurance of Component-Based Software Systems from the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and an MSc with Distinction in Object-Oriented Software Technology from the University of Brighton (UK). He is also a graduate of the Computer Science department of the Athens University of Business and Economics. George is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering department of the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece, where he teaches Software Engineering, Software Quality and Compilers. In the past he has taught many related courses including Object-Oriented Programming (with Java and C#), Internet Programming with Java Enterprise Edition technologies and Distributed Systems. He publishes regularly in peer reviewed international journals and conferences in the area of software engineering and distributed computing.