Prof. George E. HalkosGeorge Halkos is a Greek economist and academic specializing in Environmental Economics in the Department of Economics and Director of the Laboratory of Operations Research at the University of Thessaly, Greece. He has published more than 300 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and has written and edited 13 academic textbooks, widely used as basic teaching materials in undergraduate and postgraduate programs at Greek universities. He is ranked among the top 2% of researchers with the most citations for five consecutive years (2020–2024). Additionally, according to the Stanford University/ Elsevier list, he held the first position at the University of Thessaly for four consecutive years (2021–2024). Furthermore, in the global bibliographic database of economists IDEAS-RePEc, he is ranked in the top 1% worldwide, in Europe, in the European Union, and in Greece.Prof. Teresa A. OliveiraTeresa A. Oliveira is Associate Professor with Habilitation in Mathematics–Statistics at Universidade Aberta (UAb), Lisbon. She is an integrated member of the Laboratory of Distance Education and eLearning- LE@D, a collaborator of CIAC and CEG at UAb, and a senior researcher at the Center of Statistics and Applications of the University of Lisbon (CEAUL). Her research spans statistics, particularly experimental design, risk analysis, computational statistics, data science, connections to artificial intelligence, and e-learning methodologies, as well as applications to a broad range of areas across environmental sciences, economics, education and industry. She is Chair of the ISI Committee on Risk Analysis (2014–), a founding member of the ISI Working Group on Data Science, and a collaborator of the International Science Council and UK Health Security Agency. She has chaired and co-chaired major international conferences, such as, in 2025, the ICRA-10 in Patras-Greece, ICASTE in Antalya-Turkey and WSMC15 in Santarém-Portugal. She has authored, co-authored and co-edited numerous publications, serves on multiple editorial boards, and continues to inspire innovation through teaching, supervision, and global collaborations.Em. Prof. Christos P. KitsosEm. Prof Christos P. Kitsos, University of Western Attica, received his BA in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece (1973), his MA in Mathematics & Statistics from the University of New Brunswick, Canada (1978), and his PhD in Statistics from the Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK (1986). He has lectured at various universities and authored numerous papers and books, as well as co-edited conference proceedings. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Amílcar OliveiraAmílcar Oliveira from Universidade Aberta (UAb), Portugal, is a member of CEAUL, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal and LEaD, Universidade Aberta, Portugal. He obtained his Habilitation in Mathematics from UAb in 2024, his PhD in Mathematics from UAb (2008), and his MA in Statistics and Optimization from Nova University of Lisbon (1999). He has published more than fifteen papers in international refereed journals and conference proceedings, co-authored twelve book chapters, and edited fifteen books. He serves on the Scientific and Organizing Committees of several international conferences and chairs statistical conferences.
