Members of the Faculty

Currently, Professor Dr. Panos Fitsilis is full Professor at Business Administration Dept. of University of Thessaly (UTH), Greece.

Previously Prof. Fitsilis was Professor at University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly (UAST), visiting professor at Innopolis University, Kazan, Russian Federation and Lecturer and Academic Coordinator of thematic area of “Software Design” at Hellenic Open University (HOU).

Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos is a Professor in e-business at the University of Thessaly, Greece. During his current mission and at his previous job positions (as an Expert Counselor at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a Special Advisor of the Mayor of Trikala, Greece and as an ICT project manager at the Information Society S.A. (Greece)) he planned and supervised several critical projects, worth mentioning the smart city of Trikala. He is the Director of the “Intelligent Production Systems and Smart Cities” Research Institute and the Director of the Postgraduate Program in Agile Management at the University of Thessaly, Greece.

Dr. Kazantzi is a Professor at the Department of Business Administration in the University of Thessaly, Greece. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University, USA. She has a Master of Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, both in chemical engineering.

Themistoklis Lazaridis is an economist with postgraduate studies (University of Macedonia) in business administration and a doctorate from the Democritus University of Thrace. He worked as a business consultant for several years and then was an executive of a large stock exchange company. From 2007 until 2017 he was a professor at the TEI of Western Macedonia and today he is a Professor at the University of Thessaly (Department of Business Administration).

Kleanthis Sirakoulis has a B.Sc. in Mathematics (University of Thessaloniki), a M.Sc. in Planning with emphasis in quantitative methods for spatial analysis (University of Thessaly) and a PhD in Urban Leisure Planning. Since 2003 he is a Lecturer in the Department of Project Management, Technological Education Institute of Thessaly. He teaches Project Scheduling and Research Methodologies.

Dimitris Belias is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration, School of Management and Economics, at the University of Thessaly, Greece, with the subject ” Οrganization and Services Management in the Tourist Market “. His research interests are in the areas of Management, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Tourism Business Administration, Educational Management, Service Quality and Tourism and Hospitality Management.

Dr. Byron Damasiotis is a graduate of the Mathematics Department of the University of Ioannina. He holds an MSc in High Speed ​​Networks and Distributed Systems from Oxford Brookes University – UK and a PhD in Software Project Management Complexity Modeling from Staffordshire University – UK.

Dr. Paraskevi Tsoutsa obtained her PhD in Web Services Synthesis from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Patras. He graduated from the Department of Statistics at the University of Piraeus and holds a Master’s degree from the Department of Computer Science at Cardiff University, United Kingdom. For ten years he worked in an IT company where he assumed various responsibilities in the software department such as technical consultant, software developer and responsible project manager.

Achilles D. Kameas received his Engineering Diploma (in 1989) and his Ph.D. (in 1995, in Human-Computer Interaction), both from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, Univ. of Patras, Greece. He has also received formal education on Adult Education and on Open and Distance Education.

Theodor Panagiotakopoulos was born in Greece in 1981. He received his BSc and PhD from the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece in 2006 and 2011 respectively, with his dissertation on “Context-awareness and user modeling in pervasive systems”.

Ioannis Kiouvrekis is an assistant professor of “Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence in Health Sciences” and director of the Laboratory of Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.
He teaches at the Universities of Thessaly and Aegean.

He is a graduate of SEMFE and has published a number of articles in journals and conferences on applications of logic in computer science and artificial intelligence.

Ph.D.: 2005, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras
M.Sc.: 2001, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras
B.Sc.: 1999, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras