Biography

Dr Andreas Georgopoulos is professor of photogrammetry in the School of Rural & Surveying Engineering (R&S Eng) at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece. He graduated from the School of R&S Eng (1976) and obtained a diploma (1977) and an MSc and later a PhD (1981) in photogrammetry from University College London (University of London). Since 1985 he has been a faculty member of NTUA and teaches photogrammetry and courses on metrology, photographic data acquisition, monument surveys, etc. He has been director of the Laboratory of Photogrammetry since 1996 and has served as vice-head (1998-2002) and head (2002-2006) of the School and vice-president of the NTUA Research Committee (2006-2010 and 2014 to date). Since 2005 he has been an executive board member of CIPA Heritage Documentation; he served as secretary general (2011-2014) and has been president since 2015.

Since 1985 he has participated in all research projects of the Laboratory of Photogrammetry concerned with photogrammetry, architectural photogrammetry and monument recording, digital and analytical photogrammetry and cadastral applications. Since 2010 he has been teaching in the ARCHDOC workshop in the RLICC at KU Leuven for the postgraduate course for monument preservation, and has been a visiting professor to the Cyprus Institute (STARC) and CUT (2010-11). He has published more than 200 scientific articles in conference proceedings and peer-reviewed journals on subjects concerned with photogrammetry, geometric recording of monuments, digital photogrammetry and automation techniques. His research interests focus mainly on geometric recording of monuments using contemporary techniques.