**Alex Karagrigoriou**

He studied at the University of Patras, Greece, and the University of Maryland, USA. He has worked at the University of Maryland, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Institute of Statistical Sciences, Taiwan, and taught at the Universities of Maryland, Athens, the Aegean, and Cyprus. He is currently Professor of Probability and Statistics and Director of the Laboratory of Statistics and Data Analysis at the University of the Aegean, Greece. ir mechanisms of action (pore-forming activity, safety of antibiotics to human and animal cells).

His research activities cover various areas of statistics, such as applied probability, probability theory, mathematical statistics, applied and computational statistics, statistical and stochastic modeling, model selection criteria, biostatistics, information theory and divergence measures, time series analysis, goodness of fit tests, economic demography, actuarial mathematics, risk theory, Markov and semi-Markov processes, statistical quality control, big data analytics, multivariate analysis, and reliability theory. He has published more than 100 articles (journals and collective volumes) and has given more than 80 invited presentations at international conferences, symposia, and universities all over the world. He has supervised 3 postdoc, 6 PhD and 50 master's theses, published 2 textbooks in Greek, and edited 9 collective volumes (Wiley, ISAST, Springer, iSTE Wiley).

He has extensive experience as a Principal Scientific and Financial Investigator in the design and execution of research projects which involve the statistical analysis of medical, biomedical, socioeconomic, and economic data and has been involved in a number of research programs with external funding over the last 20 years, as well as the organization of conferences, seminars, workshops, and summer schools.
