It is with pleasure that we can announce that Georgios Michalakidis has been successfully confirmed in his PhD last Thursday. Dr Sotiris Moschoyiannis has been helpful and provided valuable feedback and encouragement for Georgios to carry on.  Dr Bogdan Vrusias is his supervisor.  Georgios's presentation was entitled: Intelligent Information Retrieval in the Deep Web: an adaptable semantic model for retrieving, indexing and visualising Web Knowledge