Aristides (Aris) Moustakas PhD 
Distinguished Researcher
University of Crete
Natural History Museum of Crete
Statistics, Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, and Modelling
 

I am a distinguished researcher at the Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Greece, and a contracted expert of the European Commission. I have been a Senior Assistant Professor in Data Analytics, at the Institute for Applied Data Analytics at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, in Brunei, Borneo - one of the highest-ranked young Universities on Earth - and before that Lecturer in Predictive Modelling at the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London, UK. I have contributed in publishing over 50 journal papers among others in journals such as Nature Communications. My research featured in the BBC, BBC4, The Guardian, BBC Countryfile, as well as Greek, German and French media. In addition, my research had a substantial impact resulting among others in an invitation to brief the British Parliament on data analytics regarding Bovine Tuberculosis, followed by a Freedom of Information Act submitted by MPs and members of the House of Lords. Recently published research on wind energy spatial planning was discussed in the Greek Parliament and ultimately resulted in changing the Greek legislation regarding wind energy planning and cancelling renewable energy resources licenses in several non-fragmented mountainous areas, while licensed in fragmented low altitude areas.