Ioannis Batas is a Research & Innovation Manager and software engineer with nine years of experience bridging hands-on development and EU research orchestration from Athens. He has led acquisition and exploitation for multiple EU-funded projects, translating research outputs into commercial business models and sustainability impact assessments while authoring successful proposals. His background spans backend and frontend roles at organizations like CERN and Accenture, plus founding social-impact apps that earned awards and a TEDx talk, showing a pattern of mission-driven productization. Trained in Software Engineering, Data Science and Science & Technology Studies, he combines technical fluency with policy-minded analysis—evident in his ASEF report on Greece’s science diplomacy gaps. Known for turning prototype code into funded projects, he brings both developer rigor and strategic partnership-building to innovation pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Management Science and Technology, Major: Software Engineering and Data Science, B.Sc. Management Science and Technology, Major: Software Engineering and Data Science at Athens University of Economics and Business
Erasmus Semester, Erasmus Semester at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark
M.Sc. Science and Technology Studies (STS), M.Sc. Science and Technology Studies (STS) at National Kapodistrian University of Athens
B.Sc. Electrical & Computer Engineering, B.Sc. Electrical & Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
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