**Meet the editor**

Dr Vasilios N. Katsikis received his Diploma of Mathematics from the University of Athens, his M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and his Ph. D. in Mathematics from the National Technical University of Athens. He also worked as a post-doc researcher in Applied and Computational Mathematics under the financial support of the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). During the

years 1999-2009 he worked in several Greek universities and Technological Education Institutes and from September 2009 he belongs to the teaching and research stuff of the Department of Mathematics at the Technological Education Institute of Piraeus as an assistant professor of Mathematics. His research interests lie in the areas of Computational Mathematics, Functional Analysis, Computational Finance, Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra, Image and Signal Processing. He has published several articles in high quality journals concerning the above areas and he serves as a reviewer for many journals and congresses while he belongs to the editorial board of three journals.
