About Dr. Stathis G. Arapostathis:
Dr. Stathis G. Arapostathis was born in Athens, Greece, on September 1st, 1984. After completing his school studies, he moved to Mytilene, on the island of Lesvos, where he studied Geography at the University of the Aegean. He later pursued both his MSc and PhD at the Department of Geography, Harokopio University in Athens, specializing in Geo-Informatics and, subsequently, in the use of Social Media for natural disasters. His research interests revolve around the intersection of Social Networks and Science. He is currently Researcher at self-owned a little map, located in Greece. His broader interests span Social Media, Machine learning, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Geoinformatics, GIS, the development of web map applications, tourism geography, and applied technologies in geography and education. According to Google Scholar, his publications have been cited more than 67 times so far (excluding self-citations and few detected errors of the algorythm), with an i-10 index = 1 and an i-5 index = 4 (Numbers as of 31st of July 2025). Alongside his extensive research background, he has been teaching in secondary education in Greece, since 2023. He has also tought tourism geography at after school level.Educational Background
- PhD in Geo-Informatics, Harokopio University, department of Geography, 2015
- MSc in Geo-Informatics, Harokopio University, department of Geography, 2010
- Degree in Geography, University of the Aegean, department of Geography, 2008
Peer reviewed Scientific Publications
- Arapostathis, S. G. (2023) Social Networks and Participatory Approaches in the Service of Disaster Management of Fire Events. In Advances in Environmental Research Vol. 95. Nova Publishers, New York, USA. Part of BISAC: SCI026000, part of ISBN: 979-8-88697-717-2, part of ISBN: 979-8-88697-763-9
- Arapostathis, S. G. (2020). Fundamentals of Volunteered Geographic Information in Disaster Management Related to Floods. In Flood Impact Mitigation and Resilience Enhancement. IntechOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.92225
- Arapostathis, S. G. (2025). Introducing Deucalion and Pyrrha v1.0: Image Datasets for Disaster Management of Floods. Journal of Applied Engineering Education. OPast publishers. Vol 2(1):1-12. Dallas, USA. https://doi.org/10.33140/jaee.02.01.03
- Arapostathis, S. G. (2021). Social network users create seismic intensity maps: an automatic approach of the methodology. SN Computer Science, 2(5), 349. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-021-00728-z
- Arapostathis, S. G. (2021). Utilising Twitter for disaster management of fire events: steps towards efficient automation. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 14(8), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-06768-2
- Arapostathis, S. G. (2021). A Methodology for Automatic Acquisition of Flood‐event Management Information From Social Media: the Flood in Messinia, South Greece, 2016. Information Systems Frontiers, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-021-10105-z
- Arapostathis (2019). International Summer School of Russian Geographical Society, St. Petroupolis, Russia, August 2018. Journal Geographies, 33:118-121, ISSN:1109-186X, Summer 2019
- Arapostathis (2018). The social media network twitter as a source of volunteered geographic information for extracting mapping information and developing seismic intensity maps. Publication of PhD dissertation, Journal Geographies 32:114-118, ISSN: 1109-186X, Winter 2018
- Arapostathis S, Parcharidis I, Stefanakis E, Drakatos G, Kalogeras I (2016). A method for creating seismic intensity maps from twitter data. Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, David Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17265/1934-7359/2016.07.013
- Arapostathis, S. G. (2023, December). Archiving Social Media Discussions in Time and Space: A Focus on Refugees from Middle East and Related War Conflicts During Jan 2015–Apr 2016. In International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (pp. 115-132). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64037-7_8
- Arapostathis, S. G. (2020, December). The Ianos Cyclone (September 2020, Greece) from Perspective of Utilizing Social Networks for DM. In International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (pp. 160-169). Cham: Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81469-4_13
- Arapostathis, S. G. (2020, November). Fire-Event Management Insights Through Social Media. In Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (pp. 113-116). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43759-5_25
- Arapostathis S. G. (2019). Instagrammers report about the deadly wildfires of East Attica, 2018, Greece: An introductory analytic assessment for disaster management purposes. In Z. Franco, J. J. González, & J. H. Canós (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (pp. 473–481). Valencia, Spain: Iscram.
- Arapostathis S.G., Karantzia M. (2019). Mapping information of Fire Events, from VGI source (twitter), for effective Disaster Management (in Greece); The Fire of North-East Attica, August 2017, (Greece) Case Study Short paper in Advances in Remote Sensing and Informatics Applications, 257-260. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01440-7_60
- Arapostathis, S. G. (2018, September). Tweeting About Floods of Messinia (Greece, September 2016)-Towards a Credible Methodology for Disaster Management Purposes. In International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (pp. 142-154). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32169-7_11
- Arapostathis, S. G., Spyrou, N., Drakatos, G., Kalabokidis, K., Lekkas, E., & Xanthopoulos, G. (2018). Mapping information related to floods, extracted from VGI sources, for effective disaster management within the Greek territory; the floods of West Attica (November 2017 Greece) case study. In 11th International Conference of the Hellenic Geographical Society.
- Arapostathis, S. G., Lekkas, E., Kalabokidis, K., Drakatos, G., Xanthopoulos, G., Spyroy, N., & Kalogeras, I. (2018, March). Developing seismic intensity maps from twitter data; the case study of Lesvos Greece 2017 earthquake: Assessments, improvements and enrichments on the methodology. In Proceedings of the GI4DM 2018 Congress, Istanbul. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-W4-59-2018
- Arapostathis E. (2010). A web-tool for visualizing geographic data for the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (available in Greek only) . In Proceedings of the 6th Pan-Hellenic Congress Hellas GIs, 2nd of December 2010, Athens
- Arapostathis S. (2010). Models for analyzing the touristic distribution of the Greek Museums. (available in Greek only) In Proceedings of the 9th Pan-Hellenic Geographical Congress, 4-6 of November 2010, Athens
- Arapostathis, S. G. (2022, May). The Samos earthquake event (Mw= 7, 30 October 2020, Greece) as case study for applying machine learning on texts and photos scraped from social networks for developing seismic intensity maps. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (pp. EGU22-7129). *Presentation available online. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-7129
Peer reviewed Chapters in Books
Peer reviewed Articles in Scientific Journals
Peer reviewed papers from Conferences
Accepted Abstracts in Conferences
Currently working on/Preprints
- Arapostathis, S. G. (2025). A Mash-Up of Social Media Datasets for Extracting Hydrological Information: The Case Study of the Medicane Ianos (September 2020, Greece). http://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202505.0804.v2
Professional Experience
- School Teacher, Secondary Education (Gymnasium), Greece (2023 - today).
- Self employed, a little map (2018 - today).
- external collaborator at Hellenic Statistical Authority (2019-2023).
- During 2017-2018: Some weeks in various small and mid-sized companies in Greece (Geoapikonisis, etc).
- HERE (Former Nokia/Former Navteq, 2010 - 2016): Geographic Analyst I/II.
- Prior to 2010: 1 year in total of working experience in small and midsized Greek companies. Indicatively: ITMC,Geoapikonisis AEMGE etc.
Language Skills
- English: Proficiency (C2), University of Michigan
- Spanish: Basico (B2), Instituto Cervantes
Computer Skills
Indicative General Software Skills
- Libre Office (expert)
- Ubuntu (descent)
- Wordpress (advanced)
- Internet software / internet tools
- Zotero
Programming Skills
- R (expert)
- CSS (descent)
- HTML5 (descent)
- Javascript (rookie, not using a lot)
- Python (intermediate probably, more than rookie surely)
- C++ (currently not using a lot, rookie or even less)
Geography related software / programming skills (mostly used)
- Quantum GIS (expert)
- R: GIS related packages (expert)
- Developer of QGIS Tools written in R
Software related to Machine Learning
- Label Studio
Other Activities
- Blogger Geografos.gr
- Reviewer