Georgios Tzavelas

Dr Georgios Tzavelas is a Professor at the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science of the University of Piraeus. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Statistics (1994) and a Master of Arts (1991) from the University of Maryland at College Park, USA, and a B.S. in Mathematics (1984) from the University of Patras. In 1993 he received an award for exemplary teaching from the Committee on Undergraduate Professional Development of the University of Maryland at College Park, USA, while in 1981, 1982 and 1983 he was distinguished by the University of Patras for his performance as an undergraduate student, ranking in the top 5% of students. His field is Probability and Statistics, and his research interests focus on Statistical Inference, Asymptotic Statistics and Characterisation Problems. Dr Georgios Tzavelas has published more than 40 papers in prestigious journals and has served as a reviewer for international journals such as Applied Statistics, Journal of Information and Mathematical Science, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, Statistics and Probability Letters, etc.