Research
BackgroundFollowing 6 months of training (US Navy Flight Surgeon program) I spent 2 years at the US Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida as as a uniformed Naval Aerospace Experimental Psychologist (AEP), where I worked on personnel selection for the aviation and LCAC communities.
Between 2000 and 2004 I was at NASA Ames Research Center (Human Systems Integration Division), looking at issues of concurrent task management in routine flight operations. I attended Boeing 737 ground school training and spent about a hundred hours "jumpseating" - observing pilots fly passenger airplanes around the US, while seated in the cockpit jumpseat. This research project is included in our new book "The Multitasking Myth."
In 2003 I separated from the US Navy as a Lieutenant Commander.
Current Activities
- In 2004 I returned to Greece!
- While living in Athens, I continue my collaboration with NASA.
- I also collaborate with Kratis Consulting and Training, Ltd. Based in Nicosia, Cyprus, Kratis provides training and consulting services mainly in the areas of Aviation, Safety and Human Factors.Through Kratis, I am involved in a European Commission-funded project (STAMINA-BPM) that aims to adapt an existing Human Factors training program from the Aviation Maintenance industry to the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical industry.
Together with Kratis, I am also involved in providing Safety Management System (SMS) training and related consulting services to a major airline abroad.
- I teach Human Factors at the Hellenic Air Force Safety School and am a member of a Hellenic Air Force work team that is using the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) to identify the contribution of Human Factors in all Hellenic Air Force accidents to date.
Past Activities
In 2005, following the Helios Airways flight 522 tragic accident outside Athens, Greece, I became the Human Factors consultant to the Hellenic Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board and a member of the investigation team for that accident. The final report on the accident was released in 2006.
From 2005 to 2009 I was involved, through a contract with the Hellenic Institute of Transport, in the The HILAS (Human Integration in the Lifecycle of Aviation Systems) project. HILAS was a large-scale research and development activity funded by the European Commission. Its goal was to develop an overall framework and the processes to allow airlines, maintenance repair organisations (MROs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to comprehensively address and manage human factors issues in their operations so as to improve and retain safety within those operations. Within the context of HILAS, new concepts, methodologies, and tools for monitoring and evaluating overall system and individual operator performance, and for supporting such performance were developed.
