Research Team

Nikos Chatzistamoulou is an Assistant Professor in Microeconomics at the Department of Economics at the University of Patras, Greece since October 2023. He has served as Assistant Professor in Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Ioannina, Greece from July 2021 through October 2023. His research field is Applied Microeconometrics and his research interests entail the fields of Microeconomics, Empirical Industrial Organization, Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Business Economics, Innovation Economics, Environmental & Energy Economics and Economics of Sustainable Development. He holds a four-year B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Patras, Greece, M.Sc. in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business and Ph.D in Economics from the University of Patras. His research experience includes research positions at the Athens University of Economics and Business Greece, the University of Surrey United Kingdom and the University of Patras Greece. He has teaching experience both at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. He has co-authored three books, two in Applied Operations Research using R and one in Energy Economics, Climate Change & Sustainable Development. His research has been published to international peer-reviewed journals such as Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Journal of Environmental Management, The Journal of Technology Transfer, International Journal of Production Economics, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, among others, as well as in peer-reviewed collective volumes published by Springer Nature and Taylor and Francis, among others. His research has attracted both national and European funding.

Researchers

Andriana Dimakopoulou holds a PhD from the Department of Management Science and Technology in Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece, a MSc in Management Science and Information Systems (with distinction) from Warwick Business School in Warwick University in United Kingdom and a BSc in Business Administration (with distinction) from University of Piraeus, Greece. She has received various academic awards and scholarships based on academic excellence from nationally-based institutions (IKY, Onassis Foundation, Propodis Foundation). She has been a PhD and post-doctoral researcher in ELTRUN the E-Business Research Center in Athens University of Economics and Business under ten (10) Research National and European projects. Her research interests lie in the areas of innovation, digital innovation and entrepreneurship, green growth, e-business and investment evaluation of innovative information technology projects. Her work has been published in peer reviewed academic journals, conferences, and books including International Journal of Production Economics, The Journal of Technology Transfer, International Conference on Real Options, Conference of European Academy of Management, Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century-Springer publishing. She has a postdoctoral academic teaching experience for 8 consecutive semesters as a part-time Lecturer in several universities such as University of Patras, Athens University of Economics and Business, University of West Attica and School of Pedagogical and Technological Education. She has also worked for seven consecutive years in the past as a data collector and analyst in the National Documentation Center in the Hellenic National Research Foundation in the Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Metrics department and as an Information Systems Auditor in the company ‘Whitefriars Housing Group’ in Coventry-United Kingdom.

Dimitris Smyrnakis is a Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Economics of Athens University of Economics and Business, working on the issue of endogeneity in linear and non-linear econometric models and methods to deal with it without relying on instrumental variables. The methods are applied to empirical research in the fields of Economic Growth and Development, Finance and International Trade among others. Dimitris received his Ph.D. (in Economics) from the Department of Economics of Athens University of Economics and Business (Athens, Greece). He also holds a M.Sc. in Economics from the Depatment of Economics of Athens University of Economics and Business and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Athens, Greece). His research has received funding from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (Project DETEM – Dealing with the problem of endogeneity in threshold models), as wells as the European Social Fund and the Greek Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs under the Program “Supporting researchers with an emphasis on young researchers” (Project: Can factors determining the interest rate curve explain changes in foreign exchange rates?).

Emmanouil Tyllianakis joined the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom in 2019 and he is currently working in two Horizon 2020 projects (CONSOLE and DRYvER). He holds a four-year BSc in Economics, University of Patras Greece, MSc. in Environmental Economics, University of Manchester, UK and a PhD in Environmental Economics, University of Patras, Greece. His work helps with furthering the socio-economic impact of land/water management decisions. His work moves along these two research lines: 1) Understanding how human behaviour impacts water ecosystems and human welfare in return and 2) Capturing the implications of climate change and over-exploitation of resources in economic terms and how this can be linked to perceptions. Prior to joining SRI he worked as an Environmental Economist for Defra’s Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) in the UK. There he was involved in projects in the Carribean region, South-East Asia and Europe spanning from the economic valuation of costs from hurricanes, to the value of cultural ecosystem services and the value of mitigation for marine plastic pollution.