Dr. Skoufas has an M.Sc. in Oceanology and a Ph.D. in Marine Biology, both from the Department of Biology, University of Liege, Belgium. His fields of interest include in situ observations and underwater photography, fish ethology, coral ecology, and zoobenthic communities and both hard and soft substrata. He currently works as Lecturer, Alexandrian Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, in Nea Moudania, Greece.