Ioannou George

Professor

ioannou@aueb.gr

Dr. George Ioannou is Professor of Production & Operations Management at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business. He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Virginia Tech, directing the Manufacturing Systems Integration Lab, and Director of the International MBA Program of AUEB. Dr. Ioannou received his diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and his M.Sc./DIC in Industrial Robotics and Manufacturing Automation from Imperial College, London, UK. He was a Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Systems Research of the University of Maryland at College Park, USA, where he received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. His research concentrates on the quantitative and analytical study of business systems, and merges operations research tools with modern information technology to address open problems faced by today’s complex enterprises and supply chain networks. His work has been sponsored by several research organizations and private companies from the US, Europe and Greece, while his publications have appeared in various archival journals and cover topics ranging from facility and material handling system design and operation, to Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. He has consulted for many companies and public organizations and was responsible for executive and educational seminars in his areas of expertise, both in the US and Greece. He is the recipient of the Microsoft Excellence in Education Award and has been honored by many Teaching Excellence Awards for his MBA courses. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE), where he chaired the Research and Development Committee, and served as a member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Production Planning & Control. He has been as an Executive Member of the board of Directors of Hellenic Railroads SA, and a member of the Innovation Council of the Ministry of Development. Board.

Kritikos Manolis

Professor

kmn@aueb.gr

+30 2108203 449

Dr. Manolis N. Kritikos is Associate Professor of Operations Research and Information Systems at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB).

He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a M.Sc. in Computer Science and Operations Research, both from the University of Athens. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Management Science from Athens University of Economics and Business. His doctoral research has been partly funded by the EDAMBA (European Doctoral Program Association in Management and Business Administration) program, with host institute the Rotterdam Business School.

He has taught Mathematics and a wide variety of Computing and Operations Research courses to undergraduate and graduate students at Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens University, University of West Attica, Hellenic Open University and the Erasmus Program of AUEB.

He was awarded with the Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing by the ELSEVIER science publishing Company for his contribution to the quality of the Expert Systems With Applications Journal (impact factor 3.768). Also, he was awarded with certificates for his contribution as a reviewer by the Editors of the journals: European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Computers and Operations Research, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Transportation Research Part E.

He has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the TARU Journal of Organizational Behavior & Analytics (TJOBA).

He is General Secretary of the Executive Board of the Mathematical Society of South Eastern Europe (MASSEE) and Chairman of the Supervisory Scientific Council of the Experimental Senior High School Agioi Anargyroi. He has served as a consultant on Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Development and General Secretary and member of the Board of the Hellenic Mathematical Society.

He is an author computer science book and several research papers in international journals: OMEGA-the International Journal of Management Science, Expert Systems with Applications – an international journal, the International Journal of Production Economics, the Journal of the Operational Research Society, the International Transactions in Operational Research, the Applied economics, the Operational Research: An International Journal, Journal of Statistics & Management Systems, Higher Education Studies, International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, Journal of Mathematics and System Science, Journal of Information Systems & Operations Management.

His research interests are in the area of Combinatorial Optimization, Logistics, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Heuristics, Metaheuristics, Geographical Information Systems, Data Envelopment Analysis, Mathematics and novel solution methods for the various versions of the Vehicle Routing Problem

Refenes Apostolos

Professor

arefenes@aueb.gr

+30 2108203660

Apostolos Refenes is Professor of Finance at Athens University of Economics & Bussiness and, until recently, Chairman of the Hellenic Accounting & Auditing Standards Oversight Board. He has held previous academic positions at London Business School (Associate Professor), University College London (Senior Research Fellow) and the University of Athens (Visiting Professor). Previous government appointments include the UK Cabinet Office (Financial Services Panel), the UK Department of Trade & Industry (Science Advisor), the European Commission (IST Advisory Board) and the Hellenic Competition Commission (Commissioner). Previous executive positions include OPAP international (CEO), OPAP S.A. (Board Member), Department of Management Science AUEB (Deputy Chairman) and Hughes Financial Analytics (CEO).

Professor Refenes has over 20 years of professional experience in Investments, Banking and Finance. He has advised clients on transactions (structuring, arranging and placing major issues) in excess of $5billion. He has consulted for many financial institutions including Morgan-Stanley, CitiBank, Salomon Brothers, Barclays Capital, Dresdner, BNP, Societe General, Bank of Greece, OTEestate, Hellenic Republic Treasury, the Athens Derivatives Exchange and other organisations including the European Commission. Independent valuator for many debt issues and the securitisation of complex receivables, Professor Refenes is a respected figure in corporate and subsovereign finance.

As an executive, during his term a head of the Audit Regulator, Professor Refenes is credited with putting the International Standards on Auditing on the Greek statute book and negotiating and completing the deregulation of the auditing profession in Greece with exemplary efficiency. He set up the orgasisation from scratch and was amongst the first five EU states to carry out audit inspections for the first time. He introduced significant reforms in public sector accounting and set the stage for the adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards. Professor Refenes took a leading role in the Tax Reform effort and is credited with carrying through the modernization of the Greek Income Tax Code.

Soderquist Klas Eric

Professor

soderq@aueb.gr

Ο Klas Eric Soderquist είναι Καθηγητής Διοίκησης Καινοτομίας και Γνώσης στο Τμήμα Διοικητικής Επιστήμης και Τεχνολογίας (ΔΕΤ) στο Οικονομικό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΟΠΑ). Είναι Διευθυντής του Μεταπτυχιακού Προγράμματος στη Διοικητική των Επιχειρήσεων με Διεθνή Προσανατολισμό - MBA International. Υπήρξε προηγουμένως μέλος ΔΕΠ στο Grenoble Ecole de Management στη Γαλλία και έχει διδάξει για ένα ακαδημαϊκό έτος στα Ηνωμένα Αραβικά Εμιράτα. Κατέχει Διδακτορικό Δίπλωμα στη Διοίκηση των Επιχειρήσεων από το Πανεπιστήμιο Brunel (Αγγλία) και BSc-MSc Μηχανολόγου Μηχανικού από το Πολυτεχνείο της Στοκχόλμης (KTH, Σουηδία).

Το ερευνητικό και διδακτικό του έργο σχετίζεται με τη Διαχείριση της Καινοτομίας και των Διαδικασιών Έρευνας και Ανάπτυξης, τη Διαχείριση Γνώσης, την Οργανωσιακή Αλλαγή και την Επιχειρηματικότητα. Η έρευνά του έχει δημοσιευτεί σε περιοδικά όπως τα Journal of Product Innovation Management, Long Range Planning, R&D Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Business Horizons και OMEGA, μεταξύ άλλων. Είναι μέλος του Εργαστηρίου Διοικητικής Επιστήμης του ΟΠΑ (MSL), στο οποίο είναι και Επικεφαλής της Μονάδας Διαχείρισης Καινοτομίας και Γνώσης.

Tarantilis Christos

Professor 

tarantil@aueb.gr

+30 2108203675

Dr. Christos D. Tarantilis is Professor and the Head of the Department of Management Science & Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business. He received his 4-year Undergraduate Degree in Mathematics from the University of Patras - Greece (first in graduation) and his M.Sc. in Operational Research from London School of Economics - UK. He was also a Graduate Research Assistant at the National Technical University of Athens - Greece, where he received his Ph.D. in Operations Research and Logistics.

Prof. Tarantilis research interests lie in the area of optimization and decision making techniques for

• Operations Research (combinatorial optimization and integer programming, evolutionary algorithms and computational Intelligence, heuristics, exact algorithms, matheuristics)
• Transportation Planning (vehicle routing and scheduling, pickup and delivery systems, dial-a-ride and health care transportation systems, intermodal transportation)
• Logistics and Operations Management (production planning and inventory control, production scheduling, location and layout models, packing logistics, warehouse logistics, city logistics, port logistics)
• Green Supply Chain Management (recycling and waste operations management, environmental footprint and supply chains, fuel-efficient transportation systems)
• He mainly works on the design, development and application of mathematical models, operations research techniques and computationally efficient algorithms to enable the use of Decision Support Systems.

He has more than 120 scientific papers in international academic journals (INFORMS, Willey, IEEE, Elsevier), books and conferences, including more than 50 journal papers in Web of Science-indexed journals. Some of his work is used as instruction material in academic programs of N. America and Europe, while his algorithms for the solution of large-scale problems in transportation and logistics have been internationally acclaimed.

Prof. Tarantilis has served as chairman, member of scientific and organizing committees in international and national scientific conferences as well as guest editor in well-known academic journals. He is also on the review and editorial board of several academic journals. Furthermore, Prof. Tarantilis has been acting as leader and senior researcher in a number of national and EU projects related to transportation planning, supply chain management, green logistics and waste management.

Prof. Tarantilis has been sixteen (16) times the recipient of the "Best Teaching Faculty Award" of his undergraduate and postgraduate/MBA courses.

Androutsopoulos Konstantinos N.

Associate Professor

kandro@aueb.gr

+30 210 8203930

Konstantinos Androutsopoulos is Associate Professor of Management Science at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business. He is Head of the Transportation Systems and Logistics Unit of the Management Science Laboratory of the Athens University of Economics and Business. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Athens, Greece; M.Sc. degree in Statistics and Operational Research from the University of Essex, Colchester, UK, and Ph.D. degree in Management Science from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens Greece. His research interests include: Management Science and Operations Research methods in Logistics Planning, Emergency Response Logistics, Hazardous Materials Transportation, Air Transportation Management, Flexible Transport Systems. He has been a principal investigator for various R&D projects on the areas of Transportation, Logistics, and Intelligent Transportation Systems funded by the European Commission and the Greek Government. His work has been published in highly ranked academic journals of Transportation, Management Science and Operational Research including the following: European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Scheduling, Operations Research Letters, Transportation Research part C, Transportation Research Part E, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transportation, and Transportation Research Record. Key findings from his research work have also been presented to international conferences including Annual Meetings of the Transportation Research Board, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, EURO, and the International Conference on the Application of Advanced Technologies in Transportation.

Zachariadis Emmanouil 

Associate Professor

ezach@aueb.gr

Emmanouil Zachariadis is an Associate Professor of Management Science & Quantitative Methods at the Athens University of Economics and Business, School of Business, Department of Management Science and Technology. He has received a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and an MSc in Computing Science from the Imperial College of London. His doctoral studies aimed at solving operational research problems via computational optimization methods and were carried out at the School of Chemical Engineering of NTUA.

His research interests focus on: (a) Development of mathematical programming models and computational optimization methods for operational research problems; (b) Management of transportation networks, freight transportation & distribution logistics systems, (c) Production and service operations management, and (d) Study and minimization of the environmental impact of transportation logistics. His publication record includes 26 articles in top quality journals in the fields of Management Science, Operations Research, and Supply Chain Management and has significant research impact (over 1200 citations in Scopus, June 2024). He has successfully participated in several European and National research projects on the above-mentioned scientific fields. His teaching experience involves both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of quantitative methods, operational research, and supply chain optimization. He has been awarded with the teaching excellence awards both for undergraduate (Optimization Methods in Management Science, Dept. of Management Science & Technology AUEB, Ac. Year 2021-22), and postgraduate courses (Large Scale Optimization, MSc in Business Analytics AUEB, Ac. Years 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23)

Zissis Dimitris

Assistant Professor

dzisis@aueb.gr

Dimitris Zissis is an Assistant Professor of Management Science at the Athens University of Economics and Business. He is visiting faculty at Warwick Business School (MSc in Business Analytics) - University of Warwick and has held research and teaching positions at the University of Bath School of Management, Norwich Business School (University of East Anglia), University of Liverpool and at Cranfield School of Management. He holds a PhD in Management Science from Athens University of Economics & Business, an MSc in Statistics & Operations Research, and BSc in Mathematics, both from the University of Athens. His research has been published in leading international journals in the areas of operations management, such as in Production and Operations Management, Omega, and in Transportation Research Part D among others, and has been presented in international conferences and fora such as those organized by INFORMS, EURO, Operational Research Society, etc. His research interests lie primarily in the fields of quantitative modeling of supply chain operations using innovative frameworks informed by game theory as well as in optimization techniques. Dimitris has also participated in various Greek, EU, and industry-funded research projects.