Professor George Chrousos was born in Patras, Greece, in 1951. He completed his MD studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) as the valedictorian of his class in 1975. He obtained his Sciences Doctorate from NKUA, and did his residency in Medicine, NKUA, and Pediatrics, New York University, and his fellowship in Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD. He was Chief of the Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch, NICHD, NIH, and subsequently Chairman, First Department of Pediatrics, NKUA, Athens, Greece, until 2018.  Currently, he is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Endocrinology, Holder, UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care, Director of the University Research Institute on Maternal and Child Health and Precision Medicine at the NKUA, and Senior Investigator at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens. Professor Chrousos pioneered studies that elucidated the effects of stress on the organism at the behavioral, neuroendocrine, cellular and molecular levels and made fundamental contributions to the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of pituitary, adrenal and stress-related complex pathologies, i.e., major depression, obesity/metabolic syndrome, and autoimmune/inflammatory, reproductive and sleep disorders. He made seminal observations in the glucocorticoid signaling system of the cell and deciphered some of its key clinical implications. Professor Chrousos’s work has been cited over 150,000 times (H-index189) making him one of the top 100 cited authors (Google Scholar April 2020) and a highly cited physician-scientist (ISI) in both Clinical Medicine and Biology and Biochemistry. He has received numerous major awards, including the Fred Conrad Koch Award, the highest honor of the US Endocrine Society. He is a Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universities of Liege, Belgium, Universita Politechnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, and University of Patras, Greece, and an honorary professor of the Universities of Warwick, UK, St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Russia, Xi’an Medical University, China, and Democritean University of Thrace, Greece. He served as Board Member and President of the International Society of Neuroimmunomodulation, the European Society of Clinical Investigation and the European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Research, the Association of American Physicians, the European Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Academia Europaea and the US National Academy of Medicine.

Prof. em. of Ancient History and Advisor of the Rectorate on Academic Affairs and International Relations at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Born in Athens (1950). First diploma of History & Archaeology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), 1973. Doctor`s degree (Dr.phil.) in Ancient History at the Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany), 1979. Research fellow of the Research Centre for Antiquity at the Academy of Athens, 1980-1985. First elected director of the same Centre, 1985-1989. Associate professor of Ancient History at NKUA, 1989-2000. Professor of Ancient History at NKUA, 2000-2018, Professor Emeritus (October 2018-).

Head of the Committee of International Relations/ NKUA (2007-2010). Head of the Department of History and Archaeology of NKUA (2005-2007, 2009-2011).Vice-Rector of NKUΑ on Academic Affairs and International Relations (2014-2018). Advisor of the Rectorate on Academic Affairs and International Relations (September 2018-).

 Visiting professor of the University of Crete (spring/summer semester 1995). Visiting professor of the British Academy (February 1996). Visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), acad. year 1996-7. Visiting professor of the University of Cyprus (February 2007). Visiting Research Fellow of the Thyssen Foundation at the University of Cologne (Germany), March-June 2012.

Corresponding member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut and member of various scholarly societies.

Member of the editorial/advisory board of the periodicals Archaiognosia, Classica et Mediaevalia, Mediterraneo Antico, Pharos, Tekmeria, and of the scholarly series HABES (Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien).

Μain interests/areas of scholarly activity: political and institutional history of the Hellenistic world and the Roman imperial period in the Greek East, ancient ruler cult, modern historiography on the ancient world.

Author of four scholarly books (in Greek, German and English) and editor/co-editor of thirteen national/international collective volumes and a longer encyclopedia chapter (in ThesCRA II) on subjects of his field (Ancient History).

Angelos Chaniotis is since 2010 Professor of Ancient History and Classics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has been Professor of Ancient History at New York University (1994-98) and the University of Heidelberg (1998-2006), Vice Rector of the University of Heidelberg (2001-06), and Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College in Oxford (2006-10). He has taught as visiting professor at the International Hellenic University, in Paris, Australia, and China. His research, for which he has received funding from the European Research Council, the Packard Humanities Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and other institutions, is dedicated to ancient inscriptions, historical memory, religion, theatricality in public life, emotion, and society in the Hellenistic world and the Roman East. His books include War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History (2005), Theatricality and Public Life in the Hellenistic Age (2009), and Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (2018). He has been member of many boards, such as the Comitato Nazionale dei Garanti per la Ricercain Italy and the Research Board of the Astrian Academy of Sciences. He is corresponding member of the Academies of Athens, Heidelberg, and Finland and hold honorary degrees of the Hellenic International University, the University of Liège, the University of Thessaloniki, and the Ionian University. He has been honored inter alia with the Teaching Award of New York University (1997), the Research Award of the State of Baden-Württenberg (2000), the Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation (2014), the Greek State Award for Literature/Essay (2010), and was made Commander of the Order of Phoenix in Greece (2013). 

Georgios I. Doukidis is Professor of Electronic Business in the Department of Management Science and Technology, School of Business, at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). At AUEB he held various positions such as member of the board, chairman in the department of Management Science and Technology, director of the MSc in Management Science and Technology, vice-director of the international MBA, director of the incubator center (ACEin) and director of the innovation and entrepreneurial unit (MOKE).

He holds a BSc in Mathematics (1980) from the University of Thessaloniki, an MSc in Operational Research (1981) and PhD in Simulation/Artificial Intelligence (1985) from the London School of Economics (LSE) where he taught as teaching assistant in operational research (1981-84) and lecturer in computing (1984-1990). He has also taught in various leading European Business Schools and was visiting Professor at LSE and Brunel University in the ‘90s. At AUEB he was elected associate professor in 1990 and professor in 1995. His research and teaching fields are electronic business, digital transformation, innovation and entrepreneurship, intelligent decision making.

At AUEB he is the founder and Director of ELTRUN, with 30+ researchers is one of the largest eBusiness Research Centers of all European Business Schools. He has collaborated successfully in various research projects with more than 100 leading Universities (such as MIT, Cambridge, LSE, INSEAD, EPFL etc) and well-known international organizations/enterprises. He was the scientific manager of more than 35 European R&D projects (in programmers such as Horizon 2020, FP7, FP6, IST, Esprit), more than 100 national R&D projects and supervisor of 18 PhD students.

He has published 16 books or edited volumes (9 with international publishers), more than 150 scientific papers and he was chairman of 7 international conferences. He was editorial board member of more than 15 scientific journals  and has acted as guest editor in the following leading international academic Journals: Journal of the Operational Society, European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Journal of Information Technology, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal.

Spiros H. Anastasiadis is Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Crete and the Director of the Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (IESL-FORTH).

He received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in (1983) and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, USA in 1988.  He has been a Visiting Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center (1988-1989).  He has been a Professor of Experimental Physics at the Dept. of Physics of the Univ. of Crete (1993–2005) and a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering of AUTh (2005–2008).  He was the Founder, Organizer and Alternate Scientific Coordinator of the Department of Materials Science & Technology of the Univ. of Crete (1999-2004) whereas he has been the Alternate Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering of AUTh (09/2007–10/2008).  He is a Member of the Quality Assurance Committee (01/2009–now) and the Vice Chair of the Committee on Research Integrity and Ethics (07/2018–now) of the Univ. of Crete whereas he has served as the Vice Chair of the Technical Council (02/2011–10/2016). He has been the National Representative and a Member of the Executive Group of the Materials, Physics & Nanosciences Domain Committee of the European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST) and the National Delegate in the Horizon 2020 Programme Committee Configuration on Research Infrastructures.

He was awarded the John H. Dillon Medal of the American Physical Society in 1998 and was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000. He has received the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award in 1987 and the Society of Plastics Engineers - Plastics Analysis Division Best Paper Award during ANTEC 1985.  He has been a Senior Editor of the Journal of Polymer Science: Part B: Polymer Physics (5/2006-7/2010).  He served as a Consulting Editor for AIChE J. (8/2012-12/2016) and as a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Macromolecules (1/2015-12/2017).  He was elected a Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor at Cornell University for the Academic year 2018-2019.  He has been the elected President of the European Polymer Federation for the years 2018 and 2019 whereas he serves as President of the Hellenic Polymer Society (12/2012-now).  He was elected Directors of IESL-FORTH in 2013 and was re-elected in 11/2018.

His research interests are in the areas of polymer surfaces/interfaces and thin films, block copolymers, polymer blends and homopolymer/copolymer blends, dynamics and diffusion in multi-constituents, organic/inorganic nanohybrid materials and responsive polymer systems.  He has published 135 papers in refereed journals, 4 in books, 6 in refereed conference proceedings, and 82 in non-refereed conference proceedings. He has edited 1 book and has translated 2 textbooks in Greek (one alone and one with co-workers).  He has edited 1 special issue of a scientific journal. His work has been presented 556 times (107 invited) in international meetings.  He has given 58 invited lectures at academic and industrial institutions.  As of April 15, 2020, he has received (ISI, ResearcherID: D-2778-2009) 6178 total citations (5677 non-self citations, 91.89%) with h-index 42. 

Zoi Lygerou is Professor of Biology at Patras Medical School and Director of Studies of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program «Life Sciences Informatics». She holds a degree in Biology from the University of Athens and a PhD in Biology by the University of Heidelberg for her work at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). She held postdoctoral research appointments at the EMBL in Heidelberg at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London.  She has been awarded grants by major national and international agencies, including the Human Frontiers Science Program, the European Union, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the European Research Council. She is a member of national and international networks of training and research, including the Marie Curie Initial Training Network SYNTRAIN. Young researchers trained in her research team now lead successful careers internationally. Her work, on cancer biology, is internationally recognized (4500 citations, h index 33). She is co-heading the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility of Patras Medical School and she has invested in the establishment of state-of-the-art research know-how and infrastructure in Greece. She coordinates University Courses introducing interdisciplinary/innovative teaching and has organized many Symposia and Workshops. She acts as a reviewer for major international funding agencies and scientific journals. She has served on many University, National and International committees, including the Board of Research (Research Committee) of the University of Patras and the European Molecular Biology Organization Workshops and Courses Committee, which she is currently Chairing. She is representing Greece on the EU Mission Cancer. She was selected as SET-Routes University Ambassador and EMBO Young Investigator and she was elected EMBO Member in 2014.

George-John Nychas received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Bath (UK) and he is a Professor in Food Microbiology in the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition of the Agricultural University of Athens

He served as Dean of the School of (i) Biotechnology, Food and Development (2017-2019) and (ii) Food and Nutritional Sciences (2019- April 2020).

During the last 25 years, he has coordinated five (5) and participated in more than thirty (30) EU projects (budget >10 M €). Through these projects, the research team of Prof. G-J., Nychas has acquired extensive experience in: (a) modelling the microbial behaviour throughout the food chain to assist in reliable estimation of microbial food safety risk; (b) implementation of Process Analytical Technology (PAT) and Internet of Things (foods) in the food industry via the introduction and utilization of sensors; (c) the assessment of food safety and spoilage through rapid non-destructive / invasive instruments in tandem with data mining and machine learning approaches; and (d) behaviour / physiology (quorum sensing, biofilms etc.) of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms under stress conditions.

So far, he has published 269 papers (Scopus) with ca. 13100 citations and h-index=66.

He served as co-chair (2008-2010) in the Professional Development Group of “Microbial Modeling and Risk Analysis" of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), member of the Biohazard panel and the Advisory Forum of EFSA (2003-2007), external expertise to the European Parliament (2005-2007), President of the Greek Food Authority (2010-2011) and member of the ERWG of EFSA (2012-2015).

Currently, he is (i) Chairman of the food safety group of the European Technological Platform “Food for Life”, (ii) member of the pool of scientific advisors on risk assessment for DG SANCO, and (iii) member of the National Agricultural Academy.

He has been listed among the (i) Most Cited Scientists from Greece [http://food-science.agro.auth.gr/GR/iframe/Most%20cited%20Greek%20scientists%202.pdf], (ii) Highly Cited Researchers (0.1%) (Source: Clarivate Analytics), (iii) 1% of highly cited researchers [Uninterrupted Continuous Presence (UCP)] for at least five (5) articles in each and every year in a 22-year period (1996-2018) (PLoS Biol. 17 (8): e3000384).

He has been awarded with (i) the IAFP’s “International Leadership Award” (2017, USA), and (ii) the degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) from the University of Bath (UK) (2019).

Finally, more than fifteen (15) of his Ph.D. students have been employed as professors (5) and senior researchers in national and international universities and research institutes, respectively.

Ariadni Stogiannidou is a graduate of the School of Philosophy (department of Education and Psychology) of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds a Master of Arts in Psychology and a Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical and School Psychology) degree from Hofstra University, New York.

She is a professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology of Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. She is affiliated with the Department since 1988. From 1987 to 1990, she worked at The Center for mental health (public sector)). From 1986 to 2000, she held a private practice as a Clinical and School psychologist. She has been, also, actively involved in the areas of qualitative market research and personnel selection.

Her research interests evolve around psychological diagnostic methods and assessment, as well as interventions for children, families and vulnerable groups. She has co-authored two books and has approximately 85 publications in scientific journals and has participated as presenter in over 100 international and national conferences. 

She was the scientific director for the Greek standardization of the Wechsler Scales, which are the most used scales for intelligence assessment, globally. The Adult Wechsler Scale was standardized for the first time in the Greek population [(2014). WAIS-IV Gr Administration and Scoring Manual. Greek standardization edition. Athens: ΜΟΤΙΒΟ], while the Children’s Scale is the second edition for Greece, after 20 years [ (2017). WISC-V Gr Administration and Scoring Manual. Greek standardization edition. Athens: ΜΟΤΙΒΟ].

She is a member of national and international scientific associations and has served as member of the board and officer in the Association of Greek Psychologists and in the Hellenic Psychological Society. She has been a regular member of the Psychologist’s Committee of the Hellenic Ministry of Health and served (2001-2016) as a member of the National Psychology Committee for the accreditation and delivery of the EuroPsy Certificate of the European federation of Psychologists. She is a founding member of the Hellenic Association for Peer Counseling.

From to 2013 to 2017 she was the elected Editor of the Journal PSYCHOLOGIA (APA listed) of the Hellenic Psychological Society.

From 2015 to 2019 Ariadni Stogiannidou served as Vice Rector for Student and Academic Affairs at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Within this framework, she has been scientific responsible and actively involved in numerous projects relevant to the national and international Higher Education Area. As the president of AUTh’s Quality Assurance Unit, she successfully carried out the University’s External Evaluation, (29.11-5.12.2015) receiving «Worthy of merit». Also, she carried out the Accreditation procedure for the Internal System for Quality Assurance (July 2019). Aristotle University has been deemed as fully compliant.

CV of DIMTRIOS TSAMAKIS 1. EDUCATION 1986 : Bachelor of Physics from Department of Physics, National Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). 1976-1980 : Scholarship for postgraduate studies and PhD Thesis at NCSR “Demokritus”. 1983 : PhD in the area of “Structures with application in Microelectronic Technology” from Department of Physics of NKUA 2. PROFESIONAL ACTIVITIES 1984-1989 : Professor at TEI of Piraeus. 1989-1991 : Research Scientist at Institute of Microelectronic – NCSR “Demokritus” 1991 : Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). 1997 : Associate Professor at Department of ECE-NTUA. 2002 : Professor at Department of ECE-NTUA. 3. RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES His research interests have focused on: Fabrication and characterization of Si-based Microelectronic devices as MOSFET, MOS with nanoparticles -application in memory devices . Gas sensors based on metallic oxides.Thin film deposition techniques. He has participated in National and European research projects in the mentioned above areas. He has published more than 60 papers in International journals with more than 700 citations and h index 16 in Scopus. Reviewer for International and National projects and International journals. 4. EDUCATION ACTIVITIES Teaching of Undergraduate courses: Electronic Materials, Semiconductor Devices, Microelectronic Technology, Structure and Electrical Properties of Materials. Participation and teaching of courses in the Postgraduate program “Microsystems and Nanodevices” for Postgraduate Diploma. He established the Laboratory of Electronic Materials and Nanoelectronic Devices and equipped it with modern infrastructure for the education of students and the development of research in Micro and-Nanoelectronics. He has supervised a total number of 25 diploma or postgraduate diploma as well as 10 candidates οbtained the Ph.D. 5. ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBIL 1997 and 2003 : Member of Senate of NTUA. 2004 - 2010 : Member of Research Commission of NTUA. 2010 - 2014 : Coordinator of the project – ESPA. 2014 - 2016 : Director of the Laboratory of Electronic Materials and Nanoelectronic Devices. 2004 - 2006: 2011 - 2013 : Director of Division “Electromagnetic Applications – Electrooptic and Electronic Materials” of ECE. « « « « 2006 - 2008 : Head of Department of ECE-NTUA. 2008 - 2010 : Head of Department of ECE-NTUA. 2013 - 2016 : Dean of School of ECE-NTUA. 2016 - 2018 : President of National Commission οf Telecommunication and Post. As head of School he emphasized on improving the quality of studies, the infrastructures and the administrative services of the School. 20/01/2020: He was declared an Emeritus Professor of NTUA by decision of the Senate.

Curriculum vitae

Professor Katerina Fountedaki (16.4. 2020)

 Family name: Fountedaki

• First names: Aikaterini (Katerina)
• Nationality: Greek
• Education: Degree of Law, grade 9,9/10, Diploma of Postgraduate Studies in Civil Law, grade 10/10, Ph.D., Civil Law, grade A (age: 25)

Present position:    

a) Attorney  at Law since 1992

b) Full Professor of Civil Law, Faculty of Law, Department of Civil Law Procedural Law and Labour Law, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki

c) Member of the Deanship Board of the  Faculty of Law

d) Vice President of the National Authority of Medically Assisted Procreation

e) Member of the Supreme Special Court

6. Language skills: Greek, French, English, German, Spanish

7.  Membership of legislative/ professional bodies, university committees and scientific associations:

• Thessaloniki Bar
• Council of Europe Working Party of experts on Adoption (CJ-FA-GT 1), assigned with the preparation of the new European Convention on Adoption of Children (2004-2008)
• 6 Ministry of Justice Committees or Working Parties for reforms on Family Law
• Appointed Chairperson of the Council of the E.U. Working Party on Civil Law Matters (Matrimonial Property Regimes and Registered Partnerhips), during the greek presidency of the E.U (2013).
• Co- founder and Member of the U.Th. Laboratory for the Research of Medical Law and Biethics
• Member of the Board of the Hellenic Family Law Society
• Secretary general of the Board of the Association of Greek Civilists.
• Former Member of the Board of thr National Academic Recognition and Information Center (Δ.Ο.Α.Τ.Α.Π.) (2014-2016)
• Member of the Association for Medical Law and Bioethics
• Former Τreasurer (now member) of the Association of Medical Law and Bioethics
• Former member of the Legal Committee of A.U.Th.
• Former Director of the Department of Civil Law Procedural Law and Labour Law (2017-2018)
• Former Member of the Executive Board of the Faculty of Law (2017-2018)

8. Fields of interest: Civil law, Family Law, Property Law, Law of Torts, Protection of Personality, Civil Liability, Professional Liability (especially medical liability/ malpractice), Bioethics, Biomedicine, Medically assisted procreation.

9. Teaching: 1) Undergraduate Program: General Principles of Civil Law, Property Law, Tort Law, Law of Legal Transactions, Special Lessons for synthesis in Civil Law

2) Postgraduate Program: Medical Liability, Artificial Procreation and kinship, Special issues of Civil Liability and Compensation

4) Seminars of specialization of the National School of Judges (Medical Liability)

10. Publications: 93 publications (Books, extended participations in collective works and consecutive updates, articles- studies- consultatory responses- notes on court decisions). Ηer work is constantly referred to by greek courts (more than 55 references in published decisions) and theory (more than 950).

11. More than 100 participations in colloquies, conferences and seminars (greek and international, legal, medical and interdisciplinary)

Professor at Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering

University of West Attica

Ioannis Chalaris was born in Athens, April 1953. He is married to Eleni Baradaki-Chalaris and has three children and three grandchildren.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Athens in 1975. He continued with Postgraduate Studies in the Computer Science Department - Technical University of West Berlin.

In 1983 he received his doctorate (Dr. Ing) from TU-Berlin – Institute AEDV, with specialization in Software Technology. He served for 4 years as Vice Director for the Informatics Development Agency in Greece in the Ministry of Public Administration. From 1989 until today, he has been teaching and researching at the University of West Attica (former TEI of Athens).

His areas of expertise are:

• Development & Management of Information Systems methodologies
• Software Technology tools & Business Modeling
• Applications of Informatics in the field of Public Administration, Education and e-government

He was involved in the Development, Evaluation & Quality Assurance of Information Systems, in the utilization of Business Modelling & Strategic Management tools for designing/optimizing processes and Strategy Management by performing the following duties:

December 1987 – September 1989: Member of the ΜΟΠ Monitoring Committee – Informatics

September 1992 – January 1995: Advisor Department of Informatics TEI of Athens.

December 1994 - December 1996: General Secretary in National Center for Public Administration - Ministry of Presidency of Government.

January 1994 - January 1995: Member of Administrative Council - ΚΗΥΚΥ (EDP-Center Health Ministry)

March 2001 - March 2004: Member of Administrative Council - Information Society SA

1.9.08 - 30.9.13: Vice President of TEI of Athens & President of MODIP (QA unit)

21.3.10 - 2.6.15: Member of the Steering Committee of the TEI of Ionian islands

16.9.10 - 15.9.11: Member of the Opinion Technical Council, Min. Of Public Administration & e-government, (Approvals for the Implementation of major IT & Communication Technologies projects)

1.12.09 - 15.3.12: Scientific Associate for the Minister of Education on TEI related issues

3.6.15 - 30.8.18:  Vice president of TEI of Ionian Islands & President of MODIP (QA unit)

In recent years, his research work, due to the exercise of his duties in Quality Assurance and management units, has focused in process modeling and optimization, in maturity business models, in certifications and in Strategic Business Management of Organizations with the aid of special business tools (Business Modelling & Strategic Management).

Prof. Dionysios Chionis is currently with Department of Economics, Democritus University of Thrace. Has studied at the Department of Economics National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (B.A), M.Sc. 
in Int. Banking and Finance with Herriot-Watt  Edinburgh University, M.Sc. in Econ. University of Glasgow and he received his Ph. D. in Econ. By  Un. of  Strathclyde.  Has served as a Dean of the Department and Head of the School of Social, Economics and Political science at Democritus University of Thrace. Previously involved in the public 
administration as a member of the board of public entities and  
holding various managerial  position. Has also served as an expert in the European Commission. He participates as a coordinator of the scientific committee of the Economic Chambers of Greece and member of the Board of Greek Exporters Association. Author of books and publications in referred journals in the area of economics and financial economics.
Participant in research programmes and European research networks such
as:  Promoting Financial Awareness and Stability, European Commission, Horizon 2014-2020, ‘Evaluation of the Implemented Regional Policy in Greece after it’s Inclusion in the E.U. ’European Cohesion Policy Fund, ‘Early warning indicators for the Banking Sector’  Thales, Bank of Greece, ‘Assessing the growth effects of internet’s upgrading. The case of  Greek economy sponsored by the Hellenic  ministry of the digital policy’’, "Coastal urban development through the lenses of resiliency", Horizon 2020.
His research interest focus on  International Economics, monetary and debt crisis, open economy models, financial markets, monetary policy, foreign exchange policy, bonds market. Across to this framework his research has been  published by referred  journals among them  Journal of Policy Modelling, International Review of Applied Economics, Journal of Financial Research Letters,  Journal of Financial Stability, has also participated in economic conferences.  Professor Chionis is a prolific writer and a regular participant in academic and policy debates by publishing economic articles, position papers  and ideas  in more widely accessible forums and journals.

Asterios Filis was born and raised in Tyrnavos, a municipality in the Larisa regional unit. He graduated from the General High School of Tyrnavos in 2017. He is a third year undergraduate Home Economics and Ecology student at the Harokopio University of Athens. He has been active in university politics since 2018, representing the «Independent Students Organization». He was elected president of the Harokopio University Students΄ Association in April of 2019, student representative at the Deanship of the Geography and applied Economics department of HUA in June of 2019 and student representative at the Harokopio University Senate in September of 2019. He is also the Campus Coordinator of SDSN Youth Greece in HUA since January 2020 and the Co-Founder of the Three on Three Youth league, an NGO under the auspices of the Students’ Association aiming to promote sporting spirit through various events and seminars. Last but not least, he is the Project Development Director of WeFor, an NGO aiming to reconfigure the way a discussion is being formulated in our country through interactive conferences, workshops and seminars.