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Apostolos Ballas

Dr. Apostolos Ballas is a Professor of Accounting at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). During his service at the Institution, he has served as the Director of the Graduate Programs in Accounting & Finance and Financial Management. He holds a PhD degree from the London Business School (Institute of Finance and Accounting) and M.Sc. degree in Accounting and Finance from London School of Economics and Political Science. He mainly teaches courses on Accounting, Auditing and Financial Statement Analysis. He serves as referee in numerous academic journals, as member of the organizing committee in national and international conferences and workshops, and as member in various conference scientific committees. His research interest refers to market reactions to valuation adjustments for financial instruments, accounting choices for tangible assets, IFRS disclosure requirements and valuation assessments. Dr Ballas has been extensively published in international peer reviewed journals and he is the author of a monograph, examining the efficiency of university level education in economics and related disciplines. He has also published several chapters for international editions. Dr. Ballas possesses a vast consulting experience in both the private and public sector.

e-mail: aballas@aueb.gr
Office Address: 2, Troias Str., BAVAL Laboratory
Phone: +30 210 – 8203 463
Office Hours: Thursday, 11:00 – 13:00

Apostolis Filippopoulos

Apostolis Philippopoulos is a professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. He holds a BSc in Economics (National University of Athens), an MSc in Economics (Athens School of Economics and Business) and a PhD in Economics (Birkbeck College, University of London). He has previously taught at the University of Essex (1989-1996). He has also been visiting professor at the Universities of Bern and Glasgow. He is a research fellow at CESifo, Munich. He has published around 50 papers in academic journals in the area of macroeconomic theory and policy. He is also the editor of “Public Sector Economics and the Need for Reforms”, published by MIT Press and CESifo.

e-mail: aphil@aueb.gr
Office Address: Derigny Wing, 4th Floor
Phone: +30 210 – 8203 357
Office Hours: Wednesday, 13:00 – 15:00

Panos Hatzipanayotou

Panos Hatzipanayotou is Professor of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Director of Graduate Studies of the Department of International and European Economic Studies (DIEES) at AUEB, Research Fellow of CES-ifo (Munich-Germany), the Institute of Economic Policy Studies (IMOP, Athens, Greece), and the Center of Economic and Environmental Research in Greece. He holds PhD and MSc in Economics from the State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) Stony Brook and BSc Economics from AUEB. Previous full time academic positions include University of Connecticut (USA) and Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (Greece), while visiting professorships include University of Cyprus and Deakin University (Melbourne-Australia). He has served as Chairman of the DIEES at AUEB, as an elected Member of the University Council of AUEB, and member of the Board of Directors of the Center of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE, Athens-Greece). He serves as referee in numerous academic journals, as Chair and member of the organizing committee in national and international conferences and workshops, and as member in various conference scientific committees. His research interests include International Factor Mobility; Optimal Commercial Policy under Variable Factor Supplies and Various Forms of Trade Restrictions; Indirect Tax Reforms; Trade and Factor Tax Policies with Public Goods and Public Inputs; Preferential Trading Agreements; Foreign Aid, and Environmental Issues in International Trade.

e-mail: hatzip@aueb.gr
Office Address: 76 Patission str., Athens 10434
Phone: +30 210 – 8203189
Office Hours: Wednesday, 11:00 – 13:00

Vana Kalogeraki

Prof. Vana Kalogeraki is a Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Director of the Computer Systems and Communications Laboratory at Athens University of Economics and Business. Prior to coming to AUEB she was an Associate and Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Riverside and a Research Scientist at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA. She received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds an M.S. and a B.S. from the University of Crete, Greece.

Prof. Kalogeraki has been working in the field of distributed and real-time systems, big data systems, cloud computing, human-centered systems, participatory sensing, crowdsourcing, resource management and fault-tolerance for over 25 years. She has published over 200 papers with students and colleagues. She has published 26 papers at top Journals in her area (IEEE TPDS, ACM TOS, IEEE TKDE, ACM TOSN, JSS, ISJ, with average impact factor 3), as well as over 166 papers at the most prestigious and selective conferences in her area (RTSS, DSN, IPDPS, ICDCS, VLDB, Middleware, MDM), including co-authoring the OMG CORBA Dynamic Scheduling Standard. She has published 4 patents. These publications have been widely cited. She has developed real systems that are being used by other researchers and practitioners.

She has been invited to give keynote talks at PerFoT2018, MoVid2015, DNCMS 2012, SN2AE 2012, PETRA 2011, DBISP2P 2006 and MLSN 2006 in the areas of IoT, human-centered systems and sensor middleware and delivered tutorials and seminars. She was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship, three Best Paper Awards, at the 11th ACM DEBS 2017, the 24th IEEE IPDPS 2009 (IPDPS is one of the most prestigious conferences in distributed systems), and the IEEE SAINT 2008, a Best Technical Paper Award at ACM PETRA 2018, a Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE/IPSJ SAINT 2011, an IBM Best Student Paper Runner-up Award at the 15th IEEE MDM 2014, an HP Research Award, and several UC Research Awards.
She has received an Award for Excellence in Teaching (academic year 2018-2019) from the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business.

Prof. Kalogeraki has led or participated in 19 Research Awards and Projects. Her research has been supported by an ERC Starting Independent Researcher (Consolidator) Grant, the European Union, joint EU/Greek “Aristeia” grant, a joint EU/Greek “Thalis” grant, NSF and gifts from SUN and Nokia. Finally, she has provided extensive service and leadership in the technical community, through her very frequent participation in program committees of the premier conferences in the field, and 12 times as Program Chair or co-Chair or General co-Chair, Editor in four journals, and member in the Steering Committee of conferences and workshops.

Currently she is supervising 6 PhD students, 8 MS students and 2 Undergraduates. She has graduated 10 Ph.D. students (hold academic positions in Europe or work at top industry and research labs including IBM, Google, Microsoft and Akamai) and has served on PhD/MS Committee for over 60 MS and PhD students

e-mail: vana@aueb.gr
Office Address: 2, Troias, Kimolou & Spetson Str., 5th Floor, Office 509
Phone: +30 210 – 8203 510
Office Hours: Monday, 11:00 – 13:00

Dimitris Karlis

Dimitris Karlis is Professor at the Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). He received a BSc. in Statistics from Department of Statistics, AUEB in 1992 and a PhD in Statistics from the same department in 1999. He has been elected as assistant professor since 2004. He has published approximately 80 papers in peer reviewed statistical journals. His research interest refers to mixture models, computational statistics and especially stochastic algorithms, multivariate count data analysis, models for statistical analysis for sports data and modeling dependent data via copulas. He is Associate editor of Metron journal, Communications in Statistics (both Theory and Methods and Computation and Simulation), IMA Journal of Management Mathematics and Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, while he has acted as referee for more than 135 papers. He is also editor of Biometrics Bulletin of IBS. He has supervised 4 PhD student, 18 Master thesis, while at this moment he supervises one PhD student. He has been invited in several conferences around the world. He is member of the American Statistical Society, elected member of the International Statistical Institute, member of the International Association of Statistical Computing, publicity officer of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International Biometrics Society and member of the Greek Statistical institute. He has also participated in several European projects related to statistics and mainly to official statistics.

e-mail: karlis@aueb.gr
Office Address: 2, Troias, Kimolou & Spetson Str., 4th Floor, Office 409
Phone: +30 210 – 8203 920
Office Hours: Thursday, 17:00 – 19:00

Dimitris Manolopoulos

Dr. Dimitris Manolopoulos serves as an Associate Professor of Management, at Athens University of Economics and Business (Department of Business Administration). He holds a Bachelor Degree in Public Administration, a M.Sc. Degree in International and European Economic Studies, and a Ph.D from the University of Reading, UK. He mainly teaches courses on International Business, International Management, and Business Strategy. In recognition of his performance as an academic teacher, he has been awarded several times the ‘Teaching Excellency Award’ from different postgraduate programs of AUEB.

His research interests include international strategies, strategic roles and shifts of multinational subsidiaries, the management of headquarters/subsidiary relationships, and the impact of corporate resources on firm competitiveness. Dr Manolopoulos has published his work in international peer reviewed journals; including Journal of Business Ethics, Management International Review, International Business Review, Journal of International Management, Multinational Business Review, and the International Journal of Human Resource Management, among others. His research has also been presented in various international conferences; including these of the Strategic Management Society, the British Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, the European and International Business Academy, and the European Academy of Management. He is the author of a monograph, examining the ecosystem of foreign direct investment, and has co-authored an academic textbook on International Management. He has also published several chapters for international editions.

Dr. Manolopoulos has ten years of working experience in both the private and public sector. He has been employed as a strategic consultant for a large multinational corporation, where he had the opportunity to actively engage himself in major projects, as well as in the strategy department of Public Power Corporation. Before joining AUEB, he has served as the Head of International Business and European Affairs Department of the American College of Greece.

e-mail: dmanolop@aueb.gr
Office Address: 80, Patission Street, Antoniadou Wing, 4^th Floor
Phone: +30 2108203 143
Office Hours: Thursday, 13:00 – 15:00

Evangelos Markakis

Dr. Markakis received his bachelor’s degree in 2000 from NTUA, the National Technical University of Athens and then moved to Georgia Tech for graduate studies. He graduated from Georgia Tech in August 2005 with a PhD in Theoretical Computer Science. His advisor was Richard Lipton. After that he was a postdoc for one and a half year at the University of Toronto, and for another one and a half year at CWI, the national research center for Math and Computer Science in Amsterdam. Since February 2009, he has been a faculty member at the Athens University of Economics and Business, in the department of Informatics. His interests lie in the areas of Analysis of Algorithms, Approximation Algorithms, Game Theory, Mechanism Design and Social Networks. A major part of his work in the last few years has focused on algorithmic questions that arise in the context of Game Theory and Economics, such as (i) computation of equilibria, and other solution concepts in cooperative and noncooperative games, and (ii) resource allocation and related optimization problems (e.g. allocations of indivisible goods in auctions or fair division contexts). In addition to algorithmic issues, he has also been interested in mechanism design aspects of auctions and voting procedures as well as in game theoretic treatments of coalition formation. Apart from algorithmic game theory, he is generally interested in algorithms, combinatorial optimization and discrete mathematics.

e-mail: markakis@aueb.gr
Office Address: 80, Patission Street, Antoniadou Wing, 4^th Floor
Phone: +30 210 – 8203 149
Office Hours: Friday, 13:00 – 15:00

Thomas Moutos

Thomas Moutos is Professor of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), and Research Fellow of CESifo (University of Munich). He holds PhD and MSc in Economics from McMaster University (Canada) and BSc Economics from University of Athens. Previous full time academic positions include University of Glasgow (UK) and University of Stirling (UK), while positions as Visiting Professor include the Universities of Dresden, Mainz, and Munich (Germany), Kobe (Japan), and Queensland (Australia). He has been Director of the Full-Time Graduate Programme in International Economics and Finance and of the Executive MSc Programme in European Studies at AUEB, and member of the Council of Economic Advisers, Ministry of Finance, Greece. His main fields of interest are macroeconomics and international economics, while his work in these areas has been published in many highly ranked refereed international scientific journals. He has coordinated/participated in several research and consultancy projects for private and public entities, and international organizations.

e-mail: tmoutos@aueb.gr
Office Address: 80, Patission Street, Antoniadou Wing, 5^th Floor
Phone: +30 2108203 191
Office Hours: Monday, 09:00 – 11:00

Ioannis Nikolaou

Dr Ioannis Nikolaou is Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Director of the MSc in Human Resources Management at Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal International Journal of Selection & Assessment. Ioannis has gained working experience is PricewaterhouseCoopers, Greece and Egnatia Bank before starting his academic career. He has written the books “Organizational Psychology & Behaviour” and “Managing Human Capital – Greek Case Studies” (in Greek) and co-edited with Janneke Oostrom the book Employee Recruitment, Selection, and Assessment. Contemporary Issues for Theory and Practice (Routledge/Psychology Press). He has also published in international peer-reviewed academic journals (e.g. Applied Psychology: An International Review, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, International Journal of Human Resources Management, Personnel Review, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Personality & Individual Differences, Employee Relations, Stress & Health, Journal of Managerial Psychology, etc.), while his research interests focus mostly on employee recruitment, selection and assessment and more recently on the use of social media and serious games/gamification. He maintains active links with the industry through Human Resource consulting projects (GaiaOSE, PeopleCert, Public Power Corporation, National Bank of Greece, Emporiki Bank, Kantor Management Consulting, Attika Bank, etc.) and executive training (e.g., Menarini, Groupama, Metro, OTE Academy, EFG Eurobank, Ethniki Asfalistiki, Misko-Barilla, Lion Hellas, Pfizer, SEAT, Infote, Dodoni, OSE, Metaxas Diagnostics, Intracom, AB Vasilopoulos, etc.). He is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology and the Society for Human Resource Management. He is the co-founder of the European Network of Selection Researchers (ENESER), has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (2013-2017), and since 2017 he represents Greece in the European Network of Organizational Psychologists (ENOP). He is also the co-founder of the NGO Job-Pairs, supporting young graduates via mentoring and Chief Science Officer of Owiwi, a Greek based start-up company specialized in the field of gamified assessment.

e-mail: inikol@aueb.gr
Office Address: 47A, Evelpidon Str. & 33, Lefkados Str., 8th Floor, Office 807
Phone: +30 210 – 8203 656
Office Hours: Wednesday, 15:00 – 17:00

Charalambos Saridakis

Charalampos (Babis) Saridakis is Associate Professor of Marketing & Consumer Behaviour at the Athens University of Economics & Business, Department of Marketing & Communication. He also serves as Associate Editor in the Journal of Business Research (ABS: 3-rated, Impact Factor: 11.3), specifically in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics.

For 12 years he worked as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, Leeds University Business School, UK. During that period he also served as Departmental Director of Research for Marketing (2019-2022) and Director for the “MA Advertising & Marketing” programme (2017-2019) of Leeds University Business School. In the past, he also worked as Research Fellow in the ALARM Research Centre and the Department of Marketing and Communication at the Athens University of Economics and Business, from where he also obtained his PhD in Marketing. Dr Saridakis also holds an MSc in Advanced Marketing Management (with distinction) from the University of Lancaster, UK, and a BSc in Marketing and Communication from the Athens University of Economics and Business.

His research interests lie in the areas of consumer behaviour, empirical determination of consumer heterogeneous and dynamic preferences, discrete choice analysis, CSR, marketing analytics, and advanced quantitative research methods. He also works in the broad areas of brand and product line management and is particularly interested in retail, service, and transportation research.

His work has been published in reputed academic journals such as the Journal of Service Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Business Ethics, Marketing Letters, European Journal of Marketing, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Annals of Operations Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Transportation Research, among others. His papers have also been presented in international conferences, such as the American Marketing Association, Academy of Marketing Science, European Marketing Academy Conference, Academy of Management, and International European Institute for Retailing and Services Studies Conference, among others.

Dr Saridakis is an active member of the American, European, British, and Greek Marketing Academies, and has also served as the elected National Representative (U.K.) on the European Marketing Academy (EMAC) Executive Committee.

He is a multiple recipient of the “Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence” (2014, 2017, 2019) for his teaching at the Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels.

e-mail: saridakis@aueb.gr
Office Address: 80 Patision Str, 4th floor
Phone: +30 210 – 8203 746
Office Hours: Thursady, 09:00 – 11:00

Klas Eric Soderquist

Klas Eric Soderquist is Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Management at the Department of Management Science and Technology (DMST) of Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece. He is Director of the MBA International Program of AUEB. He has previously been on the faculty of Grenoble Ecole de Management, France, and has also taught for one academic year in the UAE. He holds a Doctorate of Business Administration from Henley Brunel University, and a BSc-MSc in Industrial Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

His research and teaching interests are in the areas of Innovation and R&D Management, Knowledge Management, Organizational Change and Development, Operations Strategy and Entrepreneurship. He has published in the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Long Range Planning, R&D Management, the Journal of Small Business Management, Business Horizons and OMEGA, among others. He is a member of AUEB’s Management Science Laboratory (MSL), where he is also heading the Innovation and Knowledge Management Unit.

Dr. Soderquist has acted as a consultant to various companies in the manufacturing and service industries, to the European Union on issues in innovation policy and management, to UNIDO on issues related to technology transfer and strategic alliances, and to the Swedish Office of Science and Technology in Paris.

e-mail: soderq@aueb.gr
Office Address: 47A, Evelpidon Str. & 33, Lefkados Str., 9th Floor
Phone: +30 210 – 8203 679
Office Hours: Tuesday, 17:00 – 19:00

Administrative Staff

Fantaki Elia

e-mail: elia@aueb.gr
Office Address: Address: 80 Patision Str, Erasmus Office
Phone: +30 210 – 8203 270

Research

Research

Research Labs

Research is heavily emphasized at AUEB and at the IBT program. Research is mostly conducted through all the research laboratories that are associated to AUEB. Consultancy is also encouraged, with the objective to develop a better hands-on experience. AUEB laboratories that directly support the research and educational mission of the Program and may host IBT students are presented here.

For more than three quarters of a century, AUEB’s faculty have been conducting rigorous research that has influenced the development of knowledge in economics, business and technology, and have been developing effective academic programs that have shaped generations of managers and leaders in the country, as well as internationally.

With more than 200 resident faculty members in the University’s eight departments, and approximately 50 visiting and adjunct faculty, AUEB is recognized as the leading academic institution in Greece in the areas of economics and business administration and one of the leading institutions in Europe in its fields.

Through publications in top international academic journals, participation in various editorial positions, and leadership of international conferences, as well as through their roles as advisors to large corporations and public organizations, or as leading public servants, AUEB’s faculty create knowledge on critical research issues, promote good management practices, generate innovation in business, and influence leadership through its more than 25,000 alumni and more than 1,000 new graduates every year.

The activities undertaken by AUEB’s faculty members in the research field are twofold:

Basic theoretical research, which aims at the production and advancement of scientific and technological knowledge. This type of research is published in international scientific journals, proceedings of scientific congresses etc.
Applied research and consulting, which aims at the resolution of major problems of the economy and society, and of the firms.

The main reasons for the AUEB’s good research performance lie on:

Its high academic level scientific personnel with culture in research and quality. The high quality of the research work produced by the AUEB faculty is demonstrated by the large number of publications in eminent international journals.
Efficient organizational structures supportive to research work. AUEB has established a Research Center in 1983, in order to manage and allocate research funds. It also has established one of the best Libraries in the region, as well full IT and telecoms infrastructure to facilitate research
Research Labs. Research activity is basically organized in Research Labs. There are 29 research laboratories currently in operation at AUEB. In addition, a well-organized Liaison Office, a European Documentation Center and also an OECD Documentation Center support effectively the research and information needs.
High-level PhD studies. Since 2000, all departments of AUEB provide organized Programs of PhD studies. The total number of PhD students has increased from 20 (in 1990) to about 300 (in 2007). Many PhD graduates of AUEB follow today a successful academic career in Greek and European Universities.
Research funds from national and European sources. AUEB and AUEB’s Research Labs receive extensive research grants from the European Commission, the Greek Secretariat of Research, Government Agencies and private organizations. Many professors of AUEB are scientific heads or members in research consortia in national and European research programs. The research groups of AUEB are collaborating with world – renowned Universities and Research Institutes.