Biography
I am an Associate Professor in Business Analytics at
Norwich
Business School (NBS) of the
University of East
Anglia (UEA). I am also a
member of the Innovation, Technology and Operations Management Group (ITOM). I
am also affiliated faculty with the
Centre of Competition Policy (CCP) and an
associate faculty member of the
Big Data Laboratory of Goethe University
Frankfurt, Germany.
Before joining UEA, I worked as Senior Researcher at the Chair for Databases and
Information Systems at the
Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics of the Goethe University
Frankfurt, Germany. I co-founded together with Professor
Roberto Zicari the
Frankfurt Big Data Lab and I
acted as a Director for Analytics and Data Science. I also worked as an
Assistant Research Professor (Post.doc) at the
Department of Economics of the
University of Copenhagen doing research in Experimental
Economics and IT as a core member of the iLEE project.
I completed my PhD in 2009 at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark under
the supervision of Prof. Volker Mahnke and I hold an MSc in Engineering from the
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm with specialisation in HCI &
Information Retrieval (2006). I completed my undergraduate studies at the
Athens
University of Economics and Business (2004) and I have so far lived and worked
in five different countries (Greece, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and UK).
I have also acted professionally as a data scientist in various roles in the
industry working for one of the world’s largest car manufacturers and Germany’s
biggest lenders in use cases for big data and analytics. My main specialisation
is in predictive analytics and in particular the transformation of Business
Intelligence and Data Warehousing to support competitive gain through analytical
maturity.
I am an active practitioner of analytical methods and tools aiming to increase
the impact of my research and some of my work has also been featured in the
German media (ARD, HR). I have worked closely with
Adastra
Germany on developing practical use cases for
analytics and big data and have acted as a consultant senior data scientist in
providing training to an aspiring team of young data scientists engaged in
various projects.
I also contribute on the
Operational Data Management Systems Portal which is an industry leading news hub for all things in Big
Data, No-SQL and In-Memory data management technologies.
Previous positions
- 01.01.2015 - 31.12.2015:
Norwich Business School,
University of East Anglia, Lecturer in Business Analytics.
- 2011 – 2015: Department of Computer Science, Goethe University Frankfurt Germany
(Post.doc / Lab Director). Chair for Database and Information Systems (DBIS).
Frankfurt Big Data Lab.
- 2009-2011: Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen (Assistant
Professor / Post.Doc). Worked as a researcher at the
Centre for Experimental
Economics.
- 2006 – 2009: Department of Informatics (now Department of IT Management),
Copenhagen Business School (PhD Fellow, Associate tutor). Thesis title :
Information Exchange and Behaviour (Supervisor: Professor Volker Mahnke)
- 2004-2006: Department of Numerical Analysis and Computing, Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Worked with Ambjorn Naeve’s group at KTH
and Uppsala University (Uppsala Learning Lab).
- 2002-2004: Assistant Researcher, Electronic Trading Research Unit (
ELTRUN),
Athens University of Economics and Business.
Education
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BSc in Information Systems (2004), Athens University of Economics and Business, 2004
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MEng in Interactive Systems Engineering (2006), Department of Computers and Systems
Sciences, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Thesis work in
collaboration with the Knowledge Management Research Group – Uppsala University).
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PhD in Informatics (2009), Department of Informatics (now
Department of Digitalization). Copenhagen Business School.
Worked under the supervision of Prof. Volker Mahnke(†).
