Alexandros Liaskos
Alexandros P. Liaskos () is a Greek geologist, geoinformatics researcher and software developer. He is a researcher at the Department of Geology and Geo-environment of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), where he specialises in coastal geomorphology, remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS). He is known for developing CVIc, a web platform that automates the calculation of the Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI), and for building numerous WebGIS applications used by academic research groups and European research programmes.
Early life and education
Liaskos studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, earning a Bachelor of Science in Geology and Geo-environment between 2018 and 2024 (220 ECTS). In September 2025 he began a Master of Science in Geographic Information Systems at the same institution.
From December 2023 to August 2024 he completed his mandatory military service in the Hellenic Army, stationed on the island of Kalymnos.
Career
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Liaskos has worked as a researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens since 2021. He has served as a teaching assistant for the laboratory of the undergraduate course "Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Principles" at the Department of Geology and Geo-environment, and as an assistant tutor for the MSc programme "Documentation and Recording of Monuments and Archaeological Sites" run by the Hellenic Open University.
Much of his work centres on the development of WebGIS platforms for the research group of Professor Niki Evelpidou. These include "Coastal Storm Surge GR 2026", an interactive platform visualising the Greek coastal areas affected by the extreme weather events of February 2026 for which the authorities declared a state of emergency; an interactive geomorphological map of Naxos based on the 1:50,000 map produced by the NKUA and the Hellenic Survey of Geology and Mineral Exploration (EAGME); and the "Historic Floods" mapping platform. As deliverables for the TRACE Erasmus+ project he developed the "Beach Rocks" and "Tombolo" WebGIS applications. He has also built and maintained the website of the Hellenic Geographical Society, the site for the organising committee of the 13th International Conference of the Geological Society of Greece (Athens, 2026), and the website of the 13th International Workshop of the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG) DENUCHANGE Working Group.
He is the author of SatShor, a Python toolkit and text-based user interface for deriving satellite-derived shorelines from Sentinel-2 imagery using scikit-image thresholding and sub-pixel marching-squares refinement. In June 2025 he led educational activities at the Geological Museum of Apeiranthos, Naxos, for World Environment Day.
Lund University
From January to May 2025, Liaskos was a guest researcher at the Department of Geography of Lund University, Sweden, on secondment under the EO-PERSIST Horizon Europe project. There he developed CVIc, a React/TypeScript web platform that automates Coastal Vulnerability Index calculations, and contributed to the resulting publication in Environmental Modelling & Software.
Other roles
In June–July 2023 Liaskos undertook a "Facing Fire" Erasmus+ internship at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Lugo, Spain), where he joined a working group studying wildfire risk-management strategies and helped develop materials for the summer course "Education to Live with Fire".
Research
Liaskos's research focuses on coastal vulnerability assessment and the automation of geomorphological analysis. His best-known contribution, CVIc, provides a browser-based workflow for computing the Coastal Vulnerability Index for island and mainland coastlines, lowering the technical barrier to such assessments. Related work includes CompCVA, a computational framework implementing the CVI for island coastlines in ArcGIS Pro, and a ModelBuilder tool, co-developed with colleagues, for automating CVI calculation in the northern Corinthian Gulf.
Software projects
Outside his academic work, Liaskos is an active open-source developer. His projects include Obsidian Web Scraper, an npm/MCP tool for converting web content to Markdown; Awesome Wallpapers, a Vue.js/Tailwind CSS web application; PyTutor, a terminal application for teaching Python; lazyls, a terminal file browser written in Go; and Carch, an interface description language for defining entity component system architectures in C++.
International programmes and volunteering
Liaskos has taken part in several Erasmus+ and international academic programmes, including the TRACE project (coordinated from Bucharest), the CIVIS Blended Intensive Programme "Latin America in the Global Networks" at the Autonomous University of Madrid (2022), and the "Culture On My Camera" Erasmus+ youth exchange in Denizli, Turkey (2021–2022).
He has been a volunteer firefighter at the 12th Fire Station of Athens since 2023, and a senior-care volunteer with the organisation Mission Anthropos since 2022. He is fluent in Greek (native), English (IELTS 8.0) and Spanish.