**Periklis Gogas**

Periklis Gogas is a Professor of Economics at Democritus University of Thrace. He was recently a Visiting Scholar at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Calgary, his Master's degree from the University of Saskatchewan and his B.A. from the University of Macedonia. His research interests include macroeconomics, financial economics, chaotic and non-linear dynamics, complex networks, machine learning and artificial intelligence applied to macro and finance. He regularly publishes in journals such as, the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, International Finance, Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of Forecasting, Physica A, Computational Economics, Economic Modelling, Open Economies Review, etc. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Macroeconomics, Finance, Banking and Entrepreneurship at the Greek Open University, the Neapolis University of Pafos, the International Hellenic University and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In the past he also taught at Plovdiv University, and the vocational center of the Athens Stock Exchange. He served for seven years as the Financial Director of a large Greek multinational corporation.
