Affiliated Researchers

Antonis Ch. Stasis is the Head of the Directorate of Procurement, Infrastructure & Material Management in the Hellenic Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction. He has a PhD degree as Computer Engineer from the National Technical University of Athens. He is responsible in the Ministry for structural funds programs and especially for e-Government and administration reform. He is responsible for projects such as codification of legislation, implementation of eIDAS regulation in Greece, electronic document management and digital signatures. He is also the national representative in the ISA program committee regarding interoperability issues. He was one of the main contributors to the Greek Interoperablity framework. Moreover he is responsible in the Ministry for European projects such STORK2 project, E-SENS, TOOP project and open data projects. He has also participated in the drafting of the Greek e-government strategy and action plan.  He was also involved in the implementation of horizontal e-government projects such as the Public Administration Network, the Greek Government Portal (ERMIS), the Point of Single Contact, and the Public Key Infrastructure.

Nikos Kroustalias, is a Senior Systems Analyst. He received formal education in the Mathematics Faculty of the University of Athens and the University of Strathclyde, Msc in Information Technology Systems (Glasgow-Scotland). He is a full member of the Digital Government Society of North America, and is committed to citizen centric e-Government and New Government initiatives in Europe and abroad. In his programming capacity as one of the pioneer programmers in the ORACLE RDBMS ecosystem, he has led major IT (Software) projects in the Private Sector. With a career switch from IT systems to the analysis and restructuring of Municipal Enterprises, followed by servicing the position of the technical manager of “THESEAS”, the most elaborate ever development program for the Greek Local Government (budget 3.5 b. €) from 2004 to 2009, he was then excited of the potential of the Social Care Enterprises as a dynamic Financial Entity of a New Economy. He collaborates in business with the Lamberhurst Corporation, a management consultancy UK firm as well as with the Institute of Consulting, UK for the assessment and commercialization of new business ventures.

Kostas Drakas is Business and IT Consultant, holding a Computer Engineering Bsc and an MBA. During his professional career, he has managed departments and business units of companies, up to the level of General Manager, in Greece and the USA. He has distinctive experience in promoting products, solutions and services in the e-business/e-government field, having been responsible for large contracts of several million Euros. He has thorough knowledge of Research and Development Funding Frameworks and has been involved in numerous R&D and other European Union and National funded projects. He has a broad experience in strategic management, human resource management and international markets.

Dr. Konstantinos Pazalos works as Senior ERP Project Manager in a world – leading group of companies providing mobile marketing and advertising solutions. He holds a PhD in “Information Systems Evaluation” from the University of the Aegean, a MSc in “IT, Management and Organizational Change” from Lancaster University and a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Piraeus. He has led/participated in numerous academic and professional projects in the field of ERP implementation, Information Systems and E-Services Evaluation, Performance Measurement and Improvement, and Business Process Reengineering. His academic work includes more than 15 journal and conference publications.

Dr. George Lekakos is Assistant Professor at the Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece. He leads the Intelligent Media Lab (IML), a research group within the ELTRUN Research Center (http://www.www.eltrun.gr) at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). Before his current position, Dr Lekakos was Assistant Professor of e-Business at the Department of Information and Communication Systems, University of the Aegean, Greece. He is member of the teaching staff at the Greek Open University. During the previous years he worked in adjunct and visiting teaching positions at the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, and the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece.

Dr. Nikolaos Bratsiotis holds a Ph.D. in International Relations  (University of Reading UK), an MA in European Studies (University of Reading, UK) and  a BA in Political Sciences: University of Athens. He has taught Political Economy at the University of Malmo, Sweden. Research interests include migration into the European Union, minority issues, international political theory and philosophy of social sciences.

Dr. Alexandros Xenakis belongs to the new academic interdisciplinary field that results from the applications of information and communication technologies in economics and society.He is an Economist, Political Scientist and his Doctoral thesis ‘Electronic voting in the United Kingdom’ was supervised by Professor Ann Macintosh (Professor of digital governance) at Edinburgh Napier University. He teaches in the Department of Economics in the University of Crete as an adjunct lecturer. He has taken part in European research projects in the area of e-participation, has been a reviewer for FP7 in the SSH programme and an expert Consultant for the Hellenic Ministry of Electronic Governance.

Dr. Manolis Maragoudakis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering of the University of the Aegean, specialising in data and text mining methods and tools. He obtained his diploma in computer science from the Computer Science Department, University of Crete in 1999. He joined the University of Patras, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2000 and he obtained his PhD in artificial intelligence in 2005.

Dr. Dimitris A. Drossos is a Assistant Professor of eBusiness at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering of the University of the Aegean. His main teaching and research interests lie in the areas of eBusiness (emphasizing on electronic marketing and wireless services). He has numerous publications in international journals and conferences including the International Journal of Electronic Commerce and the European Marketing Academy Conference.