Vana Kalogeraki is the Dean of the School of Information Sciences and Technology, a Professor at the Department of Informatics and the Director of the Computer Systems and Communications Laboratory at Athens University of Economics and Business. Her research interests include distributed and real-time systems, cloud and edge computing, human-centric systems, big data systems, scheduling, resource management, mobility and fault-tolerance. Prof. Kalogeraki was invited to give keynote talks at DEBS2025, CLOSER2023, PerFoT2018, MoVid2015, DNCMS 2012, SN2AE 2012, PETRA 2011, DBISP2P 2006 and MLSN 2006 in the areas of Edge Computing, IoT, participatory sensing systems and sensor network middleware and delivered tutorials and seminars on peer-to-peer computing. She was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship, three best paper awards at DEBS 2017, IPDPS 2009 and SAINT 2008, a best poster award at EuroSys 2024, a best technical paper award at ACM PETRA 2018, a Best Student Paper Award at SAINT 2011, an IBM best student paper award runner up at MDM 2014, a UC Regents Fellowship Award, UC Academic Senate Research Awards and a research award from HP Labs. She has also received an Award for Excellence in Teaching for the academic year 2018-2019 and two Research Awards in 2025 and 2023 from the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business. Her research has been supported by an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant, the European Union, joint EU/Greek "Aristeia" grant, a joint EU/Greek "Thalis" grant, NSF and gifts from SUN and Nokia.