(Grecia, 1958). Professor of Financial Engineering and Operations Research, at Technical University of Crete (Greece) and also, he is Affiliate Professor in Audencia Group, School of Management. He is Editor-in-Chief in the following journals: Operational Research: An International Journal (Springer), International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making (Inderscience), The International Journal of Financial Engineering and Risk Management (Inderscience), The Journal of Computation Optimization in Economics and Finance (Nova Publishers) and The International Journal of Corporate Finance and Accounting (IGI Global). He is also Associate Editor in New Mathematics and Natural Computation (World Scientific), Optimization Letters (Springer), International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance (Inderscience), International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies (Inderscience) and European Journal of Operational Research (Elsevier). He is also elected President since early 2012, of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS). In recognition of his scientific work, his research has been awarded and among all he has been attributed in 1996, the Gold Medal and Diploma of Social and Human Sciences from the MOISIL International Foundation, for his research in multicriteria intelligent decision support systems and their application to the scientific world of financial management and credit risk assessment, in 2000, the Best Interdisciplinary Research Paper Award, from the Decision Sciences Institute, in 2009 he was a winner of the highly commended paper awarded from the Emerald Literati Network,  in 2010 he won the  Best Reviewer Award from the European Journal of Operational Research and in 2012 he was awarded for his longlasting Research Contribution in the field of Financial Engineering & Decision Making by ESCP Europe. He has published 70 books in international publishing companies and more than 400 papers are appearing ininternational scientific journals on finance, accounting and operations research, fields that his research interests fall into. He has accomplished many lectures as Visiting Professor in many European Universities.