Short Bio

My name is Emmanouil Sofianos and I hold a PhD degree from the Department of Economics of the Democritus University of Thrace. My PhD thesis is entitled "Study of macroeconomic variables of the euro area using machine learning" and took place under the supervision of Professors Theophilos Papadimitriou, Periklis Gogas and Konstantinos Hazakis. I received a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) for my PhD. I graduated from the Department of Economics of the Democritus University of Thrace and I hold an MBA (Master in Business Administration) from the same department where I received a scholarship for my second best performance with a final grade of 8.385. Parts of my PhD thesis have been published in prestigious journals like Journal of Forecasting, Applied Economics Letters, Energies etc. Also, I have presented parts of my PhD in many international and national conferences. From 2017 to 2023 I was a teaching assistant in tutorials in the Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Economics teaching Workshops on Business Plans, Business valuation, Space Matrix Analysis, SWOT analysis, Break Even Point analysis, financial ratios, MS office, Introduction to Octave etc. 

I am a researcher at BETA (Bureau d'économie théorique et appliquée), University of Strasbourg with a fellowship. My research project is entitled "Forecasting euro area public debt introducing political factors" Also, I have been teaching at Lifelong Learning Center (KEDIVIM) of Democritus University of Thrace since 2021 in 3 programs: Economics 101, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Applications, Modern Business Tools.