Dimitrios Aidonis is a Professor and Head of the Department of Supply Chain Management at the International Hellenic University (IHU) and a member of the Adjunct Teaching Staff of the Hellenic Open University. He serves as Director of the University Research and Innovation Center for Sustainable Development and Circular Economy, and is a member of the Senate and the Research Committee (ELKE) Council of the International Hellenic University. He teaches on three postgraduate programmes at IHU (Logistics Science, Public Administration, and Renewable Energy Utilization Systems). He has also served as an affiliated faculty member with the Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (IBO) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH).
He graduated in 1999 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). In 2000, he completed an MBA in Business Administration at Staffordshire University (UK). In 2009, he was awarded a PhD in Mechanical Engineering by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research focuses on quantitative analysis for supply chain management systems, inventory management, and reverse supply chains. He has participated in more than 40 research projects—15 of them as coordinator—and has authored more than 120 publications in scientific journals, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. He is co-editor of the book Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks (Wiley) and co-author of Green Supply Chain Management (Taylor & Francis Group). His areas of expertise include Industrial Management, Operations Research, Humanitarian Logistics, and Green and Reverse Supply Chains.
