Lysandros Tsoulos is Professor Emeritus of Cartography at the School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He is also an Affiliate Research Professor at the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM), University of New Hampshire. In 1975, he joined the Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service (HNHS), where he worked for 17 years in the Directorate of Cartography and the HNHS Computing Center, contributing to the development of digital approaches for chart composition and production. In 1992, he was elected to the faculty of the School of Rural, Surveying, and Geoinformatics Engineering at NTUA.
During his academic career, he served as Director of the NTUA Geomatics Center and Director of the Cartography Laboratory. He has authored or co-authored more than 160 research papers on digital mapping and GIS, published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, with over 550 citations to his work. His research interests include cartographic design, map composition and generalization, expert systems, GIS, digital atlases, spatial data and map quality, spatial data standards, and the law of the sea. He coordinated several major research projects, including Impact II (Environmental and Social Impact of Air Quality), STRIDE, MEDSPA (Management of Ecosystems), GEOMED (Geographical Mediation System), Eurostat/GISCO (Cartography and Map Design), and STATLAS (Statistical Atlas of the European Union).
Professor Tsoulos has served on numerous national and international scientific committees. He was President of the Hellenic Cartographic Society for eight years and has been a member of several international bodies, including the FIG/IHO/ICA International Board of Standards of Competence for Hydrographic Surveyors and Nautical Cartographers and the Eurostat Expert Group on Quality. He was recently awarded the title of Honorary Fellow of the International Cartographic Association (ICA). He was a CCOM Visiting Scholar in 2007 (January–August), during which he collaborated with NOAA student Nick Forfinski on exploring new approaches to the generalization of dense bathymetric datasets.