**Andreas Makrides**

He received his PhD in Statistics (2016) from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, his M.Sc. in Statistics and Modeling (with excellence, 2010) from the Department of Mathematics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and his B.Sc. (Hons, with excellence, 2008) from the Department of Mathematics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher (2018–2019) at the Laboratoire de Mathematiques ´ Raphael Salem, University of Rouen, France, and (2020–2022) at the Department of Statistics and ¨ Actuarial–Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Greece. His research interests lie in fields including stochastic modeling, stochastic processes, applied probability, mathematical statistics, semi-Markov processes, reliability theory, multi-state systems, entropy and divergence, goodness of fit tests, and control charts—statistical quality control. He has co-supervised one master's thesis, edited two volumes on data analysis models and methods (2022, iSTE Wiley), been involved in the organization of conferences and workshops, and served as a guest editor for a special issue of the journal Entropy.

He was a representative of both Cyprus and France at the 21st EYSM in Belgrade, Serbia (selected by the Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society). He was the recipient of two excellence awards from the State Scholarships Foundations of Greece and Cyprus (2005–2008).

He also has teaching experience, having started working in 2017 as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Cyprus, the Cyprus University of Technology, and the Uclan University, Cyprus, on various undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
