My name is Periklis Andritsos and I am a Senior Research Scientist at Thoora Inc., a new Canadian start-up company in Toronto, Canada.

Before this position, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Technology, at the University of Trento.

I completed my PhD in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Toronto in September 2004 under the supervision of Prof. Renée J. Miller. From September 2004 until August 2005, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the same Department, under the direction of Prof. Renée J. Miller and Prof. Kenneth C. Sevcik.


I was born in Athens,Greece. I finished my undergraduate degree in the National Technical University of Athens, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I did my diploma thesis in the Knowledge and Database Systems Laboratory, under the supervision of Prof. Timos Sellis.