Director
Gotzamani Katerina, Professor of Operations Management
kgotza (at) uom.gr 
+30 2310 891568
Katerina D. Gotzamani is a professor at the department of Business Administration of the University of Macedonia, Greece. She holds a Ph.D. in Quality Management from the University of Macedonia, Greece. Her previous degrees are M.Sc. in Operations Research & Information Systems from the London School of Economics and B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is teaching courses in Total Quality Management and Operations Management both at Undergraduate and at Postgraduate level. Her research interests include total quality management, quality management in the public sector, quality management in e-commerce, quality management standards ISO 9000, OR methodologies integrated in service quality management, logistics and supply chain management. She has participated in a number of conferences and seminars and she has published more than 50 articles.
Faculty
Andronikidis Andreas, Professor of Marketing
a.andronikidis (at) uom.gr +30 2310 891584
Andreas Andronikidis is a professor of marketing at the University of Macedonia Business School. Prior to this, he taught on at the Sheffield University Management School, and he has worked as a senior consultant for small and medium sized businesses in Greece and the UK. Currently most of his research is in the services sector, though previously he conducted research in a number of public sector and voluntary sector organisations. His research interests are in the areas of consumer psychology and the integration of marketing communication systems. His research is primarily into self-image and brand-image congruence, and the implications of this for policy and strategy. Recent work has looked at consumer ethnocentricity issues and applied bank segmentation. A constant theme of his research is the interaction of ethnodimensions in shaping consumer cognition. Andreas is the coordinator for the Psychographic Marketing Research Group (PMRG) at Sheffield University Management School. He has been involved in several EU funded projects. He is also member of the executive board of trustees of the Greek Academy of Marketing, and he is a member of the European (EMAC), British (AM), and American Academy of Marketing (AMA).
Georgiou Andreas, Professor of Operations Research acg (at) uom.edu.gr +30 2310 891569
Andreas C. Georgiou is a Professor at the Department of Business Administration at the University of Macedonia, Greece. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He teaches courses in Operations Research – Management Science – Quantitative Methods. His research interests comprise manpower planning stochastic models, markov chains, simulation modeling, and OR applications in Marketing and Services. He has participated in numerous conferences and seminars and published in well known scientific journals such as, Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Journal of Applied Probability and Journal of the Operational Research Society.
Tsiotras George, Professor of Operations Management
tsiotras (at) uom.gr +30 2310 891575
Prof. George D. Tsiotras is a professor of the Department of Business Administration and also founder and Director of the Business Excellence Laboratory of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research (1986) from State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) at Stony Brook, an M.Sc.in Operations Research (1983) from Columbia University and a B.Sc. from the Mathematics Department (1980) of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was Rector (September 2000 - April 2004) and Vice-rector of Academic Affairs and Personnel (September 1997 – August 2000) of the University of Macedonia, Chairman of the Department of Business Administration (October 1994 – April1998, January 2013 – today) and President of the University Research Committee (September 1997 – August 2000). From April 2004 since October 2009 he was appointed to the position of the Secretary General of the Region of Central Macedonia. George D. Tsiotras worked as Head of a Research Department at the ΑΤ&Τ Bell Laboratories (August 1986 –July 1992) and he has taught in American Universities such as Iona College, Graduate School of Business, N.Y., S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, Saint John's University and Columbia University. He has been Head of various scientific projects, studies and training programs in subjects of Total Quality Management, Quality Assurance,Production Management and Operations Research. He is the author of four books and has published more than 100 papers in international referred journals.He is himself a referee in scientific journals such as Management Science, Quality and Reliability Management, Computers and Operations Research, IIE Transactions etc. Prof Tsiotras has been awarded an EFQM Medal of Honor at the Quality Award for Theses on TQM contest in his capacity as a supervising professor for a thesis, as well as ΑT&T Bell Laboratories quality awards and the Quality distinction as the author with the most important publication in the field of Quality in 2003, for his book “Quality Improvement”, by the ECO-Q journal and the President of the Greek Parliament. Recently he accepted the award “Central Macedonia: Southern European Region of the Future”, by the FDI of Financial Times, as well as the First National Award in Entrepreneurship, by the Ministry of Development for the Region’s program “Innovative Ideas” and “The First Quality Award” for the Region of Central Macedonia by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. His current research interests focus on the fields of Production and Operations Management and Total Quality Management.
Papathanasiou Jason, Associate Professor of Decision Support Systems
jasonp (at) uom.gr +30 2310 891571
Jason Papathanasiou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Greece. He holds a PhD in Operational Research and a degree in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has worked for a number of years at various institutes and has organised and participated in a number of international scientific conferences and workshops. He has published papers in international scientific peer referred journals like the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Regional Studies and European Journal of Operational Research and has participated in many research projects in FP6, FP7, Interreg and COST; he is also a member of the TDP Panel of COST.
Tsironis Loukas, Assistant Professor of Operations Management
loukas (at) uom.edu.gr +30 2310 891874
Loukas Tsironis is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Department of Business Administration of the University of Macedonia, Greece. Previously he worked as Lecturer and Project Manager at the Management Systems Laboratory (MalLab), at the Department of Production Engineering & Management of the Technical University of Crete. He holds a first degree in Forestry and Natural Environment (Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Systems Engineering Management from the Technical University of Crete. His research interests include Supply Chain Management, Production Management, Total Quality Management, Statistical Process Control, Business Process Management and Modeling, Project Management, Lean Six Sigma and Data Mining, on which he recently published several articles in journals and referred conferences.
Theodorakioglou Betty, Laboratory Teaching Staff theod (at) uom.gr +30 2310 891561
Theodorakioglou Betty is a Laboratory Teaching Staff, at the department of Business Administration at the University of Macedonia, Greece. She holds a Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management and Total Quality Management from the University of Macedonia, Greece. Her previous degrees are M.B.A from the University of Macedonia and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is teaching at undergraduate the course “Special issues in Operations Management” and is an assistant at the courses “Operations Management” and “Total Quality Management”.
Doctoral Students & Post-Doctoral Fellows
Bekiaris Ioannis
ibekiaris (at) uom.edu.gr +30 2310 891525
Ioannis Bekiaris is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Macedonia, Greece. His research focuses on physical and man-made disasters and consequences in business excellent units. He holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Protection & Sustainable Development, an M.Sc. in Administration and Management of Technical Projects and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He currently works as a civil engineer project manager at the municipality of N. Propontida, Central Macedonia, Greece.
Gianni Maria
giannima (at) uom.edu.gr +30 2310 891567
Maria Gianni is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Macedonia, Greece. She holds an M.Sc. in Production Systems and Operations Management from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her first degree is Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research interests include integrated management systems, corporate sustainability, management standards. She has participated in a number of conferences. She has taught courses in quality management at the Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia. She currently works as a management consultant.
Gkana Vasiliki
vgkana (at) uom.edu.gr +30 2310 891525
Vasiliki Gkana is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Business Administration at that University of Macedonia, Greece. She has earned a scholarship from the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) and the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) for her research. She holds a MBA degree from the University of Macedonia, Greece, while her first degree is a B.Sc. in Applied Informatics from the University of Macedonia. Her research interests focus on quality management, innovation, business excellence and tourism. Her work experience includes Business Consulting and Event Organization.
Kamvysi Konstantina
nakam (at) uom.gr +30 2310 891525
Konstantina Kamvysi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Business Administration in the University of Macedonia, Greece. She holds a MBA from the University of Macedonia, Greece. Her first degree is B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Kessopoulou Eftychia
ekess (at) uom.edu.gr +30 2310 891525
Eftychia
Kessopoulou is a Ph.D. student of the Business Administration Department at the University of Macedonia. Her research focuses on the application of benchmarking during New Public Management Reforms implementation. She holds an M.Sc. degree in Economic and Political Governance from the University of West Macedonia, Greece, an M.Sc. degree in Information Management from the University of Sheffield, UK and a B.Sc. degree in Business Economics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research interests focus on performance management in public sector, organizational development of public institutions and public management reforms.
Korea Asana
akorea (at) uom.gr +30 2310 891525
Asana Korea is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Macedonia, Greece. She holds an M.B.A. from the Department of Business Administration at the University of Macedonia, Greece. Her first degree is in Business Administration, from theUniversity of Macedonia, Greece. Her research interests include Quality management, Performance management, Business Excellence, Change management, Innovation management, Public management, Organizational theory, Quantitative research, Qualitative research, Data analysis, Statistics.
Mastos Theofilos tmastos (at) uom.edu.gr +30 2310 891567
Theofilos Mastos is a PhD candidate in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Macedonia (Greece). His research focuses on the investigation of Sustainability in Supply Chain Management. He holds an MSc in Environmental Management and Policy from the University of the Aegean (Greece) and a BA in Economics and International Business from the University of Macedonia (Greece). During 2007, Theofilos spent 6 months at the University of Bristol (UK) as an Erasmus exchange student. His research interests include Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM), Sustainability Performance, Performance Measurement, Business and the Environment, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Quantitative and Qualitative research methods. Theofilos is a member of the Economic Chamber of Greece. He currently works as a program development consultant.
Xanthopoulou Stella sxanthop (at) uom.edu.gr +30 2310 891525
Xanthopoulou Stella is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Macedonia, Greece. Her research focuses on the development of Knowledge Management Toolkits in the public sector. She holds an M.B.A. from the Department of Business Administration at the University of Macedonia, Greece. Her first degree is in Business Administration, from the University of Macedonia, Greece. Her research interests include Knowledge Management in public sector, Quality Management in public sector, Public Management, Performance Management in public sector, and Change Management. She holds scholarship from IKY. Stella is a member of the Economic Chamber of Greece.
Tzavlopoulos Yannis tzavlop(at) gmail.com +30 2310 891567
Yannis E. Tzavlopoulos is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Macedonia, in the field of quality and e-commerce. He started his career in the field of consulting in Alpha Mentor and after he worked as a Group Product Manager in Alumil. He became Marketing Executive in Metron of Alumil Group. He founded his own consulting company, “Upgrade Consulting and training”, in 2006. He is a certified instructor from EKEPIS. He is teaching courses in Bachelors’ and Masters’ at New York College since 2004. He has worked as an instructor to Universities, Colleges and Institutes, in subjects such as Marketing, Management, Innovation, Management of Change and Human Resources Management. He was a Valedictorian at the MBA degree. He has earned a Scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation on academic criteria and a Scholarship from the University of Macedonia. He was awarded from the Greek Academy of Marketing, on academic criteria and also from the Hellenic Management Association for his work in the European Project called “NEXUS”. He also conducts in-house business seminars.Furthermore, he is the writer of the book “Do not sell! Make others buy!” and he has published many scientific articles and papers in international conferences and scientific magazines.
Tsaples Georgios gtsaples (at) uom.edu.gr +30 2310 891567
Georgios Tsaples received his diploma as an Electrical and Computer Engineer, from the Engineering Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds an MSc in Engineering in Policy Analysis from the Technical University of Delft. His research interests include operational research, simulation and optimization methods and their applications in a wide range of topics from racism to sustainability.
Tarnanidis Theodore (post-doctoral research fellow)
tarnanidis (at) uom.edu.gr +30 2310 891567
Dr. Theodore Tarnanidis obtained a Ph.D. from the University of London Met. UK, in 2011, with a thesis on multi-attribute decision-analysis in consumer goods markets: analyzing the effects of reference points. He was awarded postgraduate fellowship from the National State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). He received his M.B.A in Marketing from Liverpool University and is a graduate from the University of Macedonia (Business Administration) and Alexander Technological Educational Institute (Marketing). For several years he worked in the public sector where he specialized in financial economics. Formerly a visiting researcher at London Met. University, and since, December 2013, is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of Business Administration at the University of Macedonia. His research focuses on modeling sustainable entrepreneurship by means of Rank-Coded Data. His work has been published in various internationally renowned scientific conferences and journals mostly from the fields of Business Administration. He is actively involved in several teaching and research activities. Research Interests: Computer-Based Support of Decision-Making in Management. Decision-Making Processes in Sustainable Innovations and Entrepreneurship. Conjoint Models. Competition Analysis by Means of Rank-Coded Data. Preference Measurement Techniques. Modelling of Purchases and Consumer Behaviour. Quantitative Methods (Scaling Techniques & Structural Equation Modelling).