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Two professors of the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Apostolos Voulgarakis (School of CEE) and Michalis Doumpos (School of PEM), surpassed the 10,000 citations to their published research by other researchers, according to Google Scholar, which in January 2023 shows 11,229 citations for Dr. Voulgarakis (h-index: 45) and 11,114 references for Mr. Doumbos (h-index: 61). It is a special achievement, which they reached after the current professors Konstantinos Zopounidis and Minos Garofalakis, the emeritus professors Markos Papageorgiou (20,000+ citations) and Nikolaos Kalogerakis, and the former professors Konstantinos Synolakis and Georgios Giannakakis. These achievements confirm once again the high-quality research work produced by TUC faculty members.
Apostolos Voulgarakis' Short Bio
Dr. Apostolos Voulgarakis is an Associate Professor with the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering (CEE) of the Technical University of Crete, where he holds the AXA Chair for Wildfires and Climate. He directs the Laboratory of Climate Change and Atmospheric Environment at TUC, which specializes in the use of high-complexity models and satellite observations for the understanding and prediction of the Earth’s climate, of the composition of the atmosphere, of air quality, and of the role of wildfires in the Earth system. He is the Founder and Founding Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society based in London, with TUC being the first officially Affiliated Organisation of the Centre. He has participated in a range of international scientific efforts for the study and the prediction of present-day and future climate, as well as in the authoring of chapters of the IPCC assessment reports of the United Nations.
Michalis Doumpos' Short Bio
Dr. Michalis Doumpos is a Professor with the School of Production and Management Engineering (PEM) and a member of the Financial Engineering Laboratory. His research interests include Multicriteria Decision Analysis, Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Decision Support Systems and Financial Management. In 2019 in Istanbul, he was awarded the Gold Medal (MCDM Gold Medal) of the International Society for Multiple Criteria Decision Making, which is the highest distinction awarded by the Society every two years, to a researcher who, through his scientific activity, made a decisive contribution to the theory, the methodology, practice and professional formation and development of the field of multi-criteria decision-making. He has published more than 90 papers in leading international journals in the fields of business research, finance and management science, and has participated in the writing of more than 15 books published in Greek and international publishing houses.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible database and search engine that reproduces and disseminates the full text of scholarly literature across a range of publication formats and disciplines. At the same time, it automatically calculates bibliometric data for a large number of researchers around the world, providing a breakdown of their data by year and links to their most popular research papers and their co-authors. The Google Scholar database includes the most authoritative online books, scientific journals, conference proceedings, theses, pre-publications, abstracts, technical reports, and other scholarly literature research.
