Nikolas Tsantas

I am a Professor of Operations Research in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Patras.

I received a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Ioannina in 1981 and my Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1984 from the Department of Mathematics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From 1988 to 2006 I was Lecturer, Assistant and Associate Professor in the same Department. Since 2006 I have been with the Department of Mathematics of the University of Patras, as an Associate Professor (2006-2014) and Professor (2014-present) of Operations Research. I served as Chairman of the Department from September 2013 to October 2015.

My research interests are in the areas of Manpower Planning, Optimization in Stochastic Models, Optimal Control Problems, Applications of Markov Chains and Discrete-Time Markov Processes, Computational Markov Chains.

I have taught several courses in the areas of Operations Research, Probability and Statistics, Optimization and Quantitative Techiques in undergraduate and graduate programs of several Departments.