Konstantinos Zopounidis

Konstantinos Zopounidis is a professor and former chair of the Department of Production Engineering and Management at the Technical University of Crete, where he also serves as the director of the Financial Engineering Laboratory. Since 1987, he has been teaching courses in financial management, investment decision analysis, and the postgraduate course on financial engineering systems at the Technical University of Crete. In 1996, the MOISIL International Foundation awarded him the Gold Medal and Diploma in Social Sciences and Humanities for his research work in the development of multicriteria intelligent decision support systems and their application in the fields of financial management and financial risk assessment. In 2000, he received the award for the best interdisciplinary paper from the Decision Sciences Institute. Additionally, for his research activities in financial decision-making and modeling, he has received honors from the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain (1997), the European Association of Management and Business Economics (1997), the Decision Sciences Institute (1999, 2000), and the Hellenic Operational Research Society (2001). He has an extensive body of written work, comprising 70 books published by Greek and international publishers and over 450 scientific papers in reputable international journals in the fields of operational research, multicriteria analysis, and financial management. As a guest professor, he has delivered numerous lectures and courses at European universities. His research interests focus on financial risk management and the design and development of multicriteria decision support systems, with applications in the field of financial management.