Academic and professional activities

Editorial positions

  • Senior Editor of Production Operations Management, since 2004.
  • Associate Editor of Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal since 2009.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of IIE Transactions, Quality and Reliability Engineering, since 1997.
  • Associate Editor of Management Science, 1993 – 2008.
  • Associate Editor of Operations Research, 1998-2005.
  • Area Editor of International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, 1994-2015.

Evaluation of research proposals

  • Greek Ministry of Education
  • ΝOW/MaG (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)
  • Cyprus Foundation for Research Advancement
  • CORNET (EC-funded ERANET)
  • Israel Science Foundation
  • EUROSTARS technical expert
  • Qatar National Research Fund

Consulting

  • Consultant for a major wine producer (quality control project), 1990 – 1991.
  • Consultant for a major dairy product company (quality control project) 1998 – 2000.
  • Consultant for a medium-sized castors manufacturing and distributing company (production planning and inventory control project), 2007.

Institutional positions

  • Liaison person of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for the EUA (CRE) Institutional Review Program, 2000 – 2001.
  • Member of the Committee for Strategy and Development of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2006 – 2007.

Interdisciplinary educational activities

  • Member of the steering committee of the Postgraduate Programme in Museology (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), 2002 – today.
  • Member of the steering committee for the development of the inter-departmental course on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (taught at 14 departments of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), 2003 – 2011.

Participation in conference and workshop scientific committees

  • Chairperson of the organizing and scientific committee of the 7th Closed-Loop Supply Chain Workshop (CLSC7), Thessaloniki, Greece, October 14-16, 2007.
  • Member of the scientific committee of the 4th Maintenance Forum, Athens, Greece, October 12-13, 2007.
  • Invited Session Organizer for the 14th European Conference of Operations Research (EURO XIV), Jerusalem, Israel, 1995. Session title: “Quantitative Methods for Quality Assurance”.
  • Invited Session Organizer for the 5th Joint EURO/INFORMS International Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, 2003. Session title: “Strategic and Quality Issues in Closed-Loop Supply Chains “.

Invited presentations and seminars

Invited Plenary Speaker at the International Workshop on Institutional View of SCM, Tokyo, 2006.

Invited speaker at the European Workshop on Maintenance Management, Lisbon, Portugal, 1997.

Invited panelist in the 1st Conference of Economic and Operational Theory and Policy, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1997.

Invited instructor/speaker at the following academic institutions:

  • INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France (MBA and Ph.D. programs)
  • A.L.B.A., Athens, Greece (MBA program)
  • University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece (undergraduate and MBA programs)
  • University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece (research seminar)

Instructor in seminars for executives and engineers, organized by the following organizations, professional societies and companies (among others):

  • Center for Management Education and Research
  • National Engineering Society
  • Hellenic Operational Research Society
  • Foundation for Research and Technology
  • Hellenic Society of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers
  • Polytechnic Institute of Kavala
  • Hellenic Productivity Center
  • Hellenic Society of Chemical Engineers
  • Professional Education Center of the National Engineering Society
  • Professional Education Center of the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki
  • MEVGAL S.A. (dairy products)