I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I hold a Ph.D.  from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. 

I am interested in environmental policy, food waste, and empirical operations management. 

Education

Ph.D.  Operations Management, The University of Texas at Austin, 2025
M.A. Economics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2024
M.Eng Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 2019

Research

Papers

• 1. Of the First Five US States with Food Waste Bans, Massachusetts Alone Has Reduced Landfill Waste, Science with Robert Evan Sanders and Ioannis Stamatopoulos

Media: New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, NPR, Associated Press, Science Press Release, UCSD Press Release, Fast Company, WBUR

• 2. [Work in Progress] 2004-2024: Unpacking two decades of food date labeling in the US and UK, with Robert Evan Sanders, Robert Bray, and Ioannis Stamatopoulos 

  3. [Work in Progress] Design, not duration, limits the effectiveness of food waste bans, with Robert Evan Sanders and Ioannis Stamatopoulos 

Invited presentations
London Business School, IESE Business School,  Wharton School, NYU Stern, USC Marshall

INFORMS 2025;  POMS 2025; INFORMS 2024; POMS 2024; Marketing for Environmental Sustainability (Stanford) 2023; INFORMS 2023; McCombs  School of Business' IROM Ph.D. Research Symposium 2023

Conference  organization
POMS 2024 (Session organizer: Food waste and sustainable operations)
POMS 2023 (Session organizer: Food waste and retail operations)

Teaching Experience

Instructor: OM 235 Operations Management, Summer 2024

Teaching Assistant: OM 337/OM 386 Sustainable Operations (Spring 2024), OM 334 Operations Management (Fall 2023), OM 386 Data Driven Healthcare Operations Management (Spring 2023), BA 280 Operations Management (Spring 2023), OM 235 Operations Management (Fall 2020, 2021, Spring 2022), STA 301 (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)

Government Service

Washington State Department of Ecology
Serve on advisory committee supervising roll-out of organic waste management law (House Bill 1799)

Fellowships & Awards

Hellenic Professional Society of Texas Scholarship (2024)

Charnes Fellowship Award (2024)

McCombs Research Excellence Grant ($15,000)

Marketing Science Institute Research Grant (#4001868) ($5,000) 

George and Viktoria Karelias Foundation, Fellowship for Graduate Studies (2023)

Onassis Foundation, Fellowship for Graduate Studies (2024-2025)

William W. and Ruth F. Cooper Endowed Presidential Fellowship in Business (2023)

Gerondelis Foundation, Fellowship for Graduate Studies (2022)

McCombs School of Business, Dean's Fellowship for Doctoral Students (2020-2025)