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.