Academic Staff
Academic Staff
Teaching in Program is delivered by academic staff of the University of the Peloponnese, complemented where appropriate by external associates with specialized expertise aligned with the Program’s applied and interdisciplinary character. The teaching team collectively covers the Program’s thematic pillars, including clean technologies and innovation, energy economics and sustainability, statistics/econometrics and decision support, operational research, artificial intelligence and machine learning, intercultural communication, and circular-economy applications.
The table below presents the members of the teaching team and summarizes their academic rank, field of expertise, home academic unit (where applicable), and module teaching responsibilities within CTM. Contact details and office-hour arrangements are communicated to enrolled students through the Program’s official digital learning environment and the Program Secretariat, in accordance with University procedures and data-protection rules.
| Full Name & Academic Rank | Field of Expertise | Department | Module Teaching | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athanasios Katsis (Professor & Rector) | Statistics with an Emphasis on Educational Research | Social and Education Policy | Applied Statistics and Econometrics (CTM-104) | katsis@uop.gr |
| Efstratios Tzirtzilakis (Professor & Vice Rector) | Applied Mathematics in Fluid Mechanics | Civil Engineering | Operational Research (CTM-201) | etzirtzilakis@uop.gr |
| Efthalia (Elia) Chatzigianni (Professor & Vice Rector) | International Organizations and Cooperation Bodies in Sports | Management Science and Technology | Intercultural Communication in Global Industry & Technology (co-teaching) (CTM-202) | echatzi@uop.gr |
| Athanasios Anastasiou (Professor) | Economic Development and Growth | Management Science and Technology | Energy Economics and Sustainability for Engineers (CTM-202) & Data-Driven (RapidMiner) Decision Making (CTM-302) | athanastas@uop.gr |
| George Xydis (Associate Professor) | Design of Energy Installations with Emphasis on Experimental Methods and Techniques | Mechanical Engineering | Clean Technologies, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CTM-101) & Research Methods in Clean Technologies (CTM-203) | gxydis@uop.gr |
| Dimitrios Apostolou (Assistant Professor) | Power Generation and Management from Renewable Energy Sources | Mechanical Engineering | Green Fuels and Emerging Technologies (CTM-301) | d.apostolou@uop.gr |
| Theofanis Aravanis (Assistant Professor) | Artificial Intelligence and Applications | Digital Systems | Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Clean Technologies (CTM-102) | taravanis@uop.gr |
| Areti Vogopoulou (Lecturer) | English Language | Food Science and Technology | Intercultural Communication in Global Industry & Technology (CTM-202) | a.vogopoulou@uop.gr |
| Angelos Sotiropoulos (Post-Doctoral Researcher) | Waste Valorization and Circular Economy | External Associate | Clean Technologies and Waste Valorization (CTM-303) | a.sotiropoulos@uop.gr |
The Clean Technologies Intensive Study (CTM-204) and the MSc Thesis (CTM-MT) are delivered through a collective teaching and supervision approach, with contributions from the full academic team of the Program.