Dr. Boukas graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

In 1998, he received his PhD in Computer Science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

He then accepted a full-time lecturer position in the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering at the University of the Aegean, where he conducted research in computer science.

He was responsible for the parallelization of meteorological forecast code for the National Meteorological Hellenic Center (the same non-parallel code was used during the Atlanta 1996 Olympics), and created the parallel Princeton Ocean Model as well as the parallel effort of the Climate Model MESSy at the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry.

Dr. Boukas has been with Archimedean Academy for several years as a Math teacher, Science Olympiad mentor, and Computer Science professor, with experience teaching both lower and upper grades.