Undergraduate Studies
    B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1985 - University of Athens
 

Postgraduate Studies
    M.Sc. in Statistics, 1986 - University of London (Imperial College)
    Ph.D., 1990 - University of London (Birkbeck College)
 

Professional Societies - International Organisations
    Royal Statistical Society, Greek Statistical Institute, Greek Mathematical Society
 

Research Interests
    Applied Probability
    Markov Decision Processes
    Population Processes
    Epidemic Processes
    Maintenance Models
 

Funding of Research Grands
    Grant (No. 326, 1997) from the Research Committee of the University of the Aegean
    for a research program on the topic: “Optimal preventive maintenance of a production system with buffer capacity”.
 

Journal Publications

• “Optimal pest control through catastrophes” (in co-operation with A. Abakuks), Journal of Applied Probability 27 (1989), 873-879
• “A Markov decision algorithm for optimal pest control through uniform catastrophes”, European Journal of Operational Research 64 (1993), 38-44
• “Stationary probabilities for a simple immigration-birth-death process under the influence of total catastrophes”, Statistics and Probability Letters 20 (1994), 239-40
• “Optimal control of a simple immigration-birth-death process through total catastrophes”, European Journal of Operational Research 81 (1995), 346-356
• “Optimal pest control through the introduction of a predator”, European Journal of Operational Research 81 (1995), 357-363
• “Optimal control of two competing diseases or species”, The Mathematical Scientist 29 (1995), 56-66
• “Optimal isolation policies for controlling two competing diseases”, The Mathematical Scientist 24 (1999), 56-67
• “Optimal control of a truncated general immigration process through total catastrophes”, Journal of Applied Probability 36 (1999), 461-472
• “Characterization of the optimal policy for the control of a simple immigration process through total catastrophes”, Operations Research Letters 24 (1999), 245-248
• “Explicit solution of the average-cost optimality equation for a pest control model”, Technical Report No. 2000-01, Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean.

Conference Publications

• “An efficient Markov decision algorithm for pest control” (1992) in : E. A. Lipitakis (ed.), Proceedings of the first Hellenic Conference on Mathematics and Informatics, 1992, 221-229
• “Optimal preventive maintenance of a production system with buffer capacity” (1997), Proceedings of  International Workshop on Performance Evaluation and Optimisation of Production Lines, 1997, 377-384