Michael Sfakianakis is Rector of the University of Piraeus, Professor of Information Technology and Statistics Applications in Business Administration at the Department of Business Administration and Dean of the School of Economics, Business and International Studies. He holds a first degree from the Department of Mathematics of the University of Athens, a Master’s in Informatics and Operational Research and a PhD in Applied Quantitative Methods. He has authored more than 110 scientific articles and studies in IEEE Trans, with reliability (3) in Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, Microelectronics and Reliability, European Planning Studies, Journal of Applied Statistics, Risk Management, American Journal of Gastroenterology, European Journal of Clinical Investigation, American Journal of Hypertension, and the rest in other international journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings.
He has taught (30) undergraduate and (20) postgraduate courses in departments of the University of Athens, the Athens University of Economics and Business and the University of Piraeus. He is the author of 7 books in the fields of Applied Statistics, Informatics, Data Analysis and Management, Business Simulations and Forecasting Methodology. Today, in addition to undergraduate courses, he teaches in 6 postgraduate programmes (4 at the University of Piraeus and 2 at the Athens University of Economics and Business). He is a reviewer for 8 international scientific journals and a member of the Editorial Review Board of the international journal Advances in Doctoral Research in Management.

