Evangelos Nikitakis is a graduate of the Department of Natural Resource Management and Agricultural Engineering of the Agricultural University of Athens, specializing in Geographic Information Systems and Soil Science. As part of his thesis, he designed and organized all the soil studies of the former ELGO-DIMITRA into a unified geospatial database. He works at the GIS Research Unit of the Agricultural University, participating in research programs and supporting the educational work of the Research Unit.