Director: Dr. Periklis Gogas, Professor

He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1969. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Economics of the University of Calgary and his Master’s degree from the University of Saskatchewan. His B.A. in Economics is from the University of Macedonia, Greece. Recently, a Visiting Scholar in Finance at the Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan. He also taught in the past at Plovdiv University, and the vocational center of the Athens Stock Exchange. His research interests include macroeconomics, financial economics, chaotic and non-linear dynamics graph theory and machine learning applied to macro and finance. He served in the past at the position of the Financial Director of a large Greek multinational corporation. He authored more than 40 articles in journals such as Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Modeling, Journal of Forecasting, International Finance, Computational Economics, Open Economies Review, etc.

Associate Director: Dr. Theophilos Papadimitriou, Professor

He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1972. He received the Diploma degree (B.Sc.) from the Department of Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and the D.E.A. A.R.A.V.I.S (Automatique, Robotique, Algorithmique, Vision, Image, Signale) degree (M.Sc.) from the Department of Computer Science, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree from the School of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2000. In 2001, he joined the Department of Economics of the Democritus University of Thrace in Komotini, Greece, where he served as a lecturer (2002-2008), assistant professor (2008-2013) and associate professor (2013-2018). Currently he holds the position of Professor in the same department. Dr. Papadimitriou co-authored more than 80 journal papers, conference papers and book chapters combined. He served as a reviewer for various publications and as a member to scientific committees for Conferences and Workshops. Theophilos Papadimitriou current research interests include complex network, machine learning, and data analysis.

Members (Democritus University of Thrace)

• Chazakis Konstantinos, Professor

• Chionis Dionysios, Professor

• Drympetas Evangelos, Professor

• Dimitriou Dimitrios, Professor

• Dokas Ioannis, Associate Professor

• Spyromitros Eleftherios, Associate Professor

• Geronikolaou Georgios, Associate Professor

• Praggidis Ioannis-Chrysostomos, Associate Professor

• Plakandaras Vasileios, Assistant Professor

• Rigopoulos Konstantinos, Assistant Professor

• Dalla Eleni, Assistant Professor

External Members

• Emmanouil Sofianos, Post Doc Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Strasbourg, 

• Athanasia Dimitriadou, Senior Lecturer, Bath/Spa University, U.K.  

• Efthimia Chrysanthidou, Researcher, International Hellenic University

• Andre Nemeh, Associate Professor, Director of the AI-Driven Business Area of Excellence, Rennes School of Business, France.

Ph.D. Students: Athanasiou Athanasios-Fotios, Fotios Gkatzoglou, Andreas Kontos, Nikos Giannakis, Manos Zaganidis, Panagiotis Goumenidis, Alexandros Grigiorian