Summary
Nikolaos Korfiatis is a Professor of Data Management and seasoned academic in business analytics with over 20 years of experience spanning applied data science, experimental economics and AI for unstructured data. He has led big-data labs and analytics teams across Europe—co-founding the Big Data Laboratory at Goethe University and directing analytics initiatives in academia and industry, including genomics-focused data products as CIO of BioMarker Solutions. His research blends information systems, behavioral experiments and practical machine learning, and he maintains industry-facing roles such as Data Scientist in Residence at Adastra. Having lived and worked in five countries, he brings a multidisciplinary, international perspective to data governance, competition policy and analytic translation into practice. Notably, his background couples engineering training in information retrieval with a PhD on information exchange, giving him rare depth across both theoretical and operational aspects of unstructured-data analytics.
22 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Management science and technology, BSc, Management science and technology at Athens University of Economics and Business
PhD, Information Systems, PhD, Information Systems at Copenhagen Business School
MSc, Engineering of Interactive Systems, MSc, Engineering of Interactive Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
English, German, Danish, Swedish