University of PiraeusDr. Dimitrios M. Emiris (Dipl. Eng., M.Sc., Ph.D., PMP) was born in Athens in 1965. In 1987, he received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He obtained the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, in 1988 and 1991, respectively, both from the University of Rochester, NY, USA. He has served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Management and Technology, University of Piraeus. He has been actively involved in project management education in Greece over the last twenty years and has recorded 3.000+ teaching hours in the subject at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has participated in several large projects mainly in the area of shutdown and turnaround management and has consulted firms on how to integrate PM in their organizational structure. He has published over 120 articles in refereed journals and conferences in the subjects of Industrial Management, Project Management and Production Management. He is the author of two books in Project Management and in Robotics, respectively. Since 2008, he is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®). Dr. Emiris can be contacted at emiris@unipi.gr
