Georgiou Paraskevas

His research interests are on the scientific areas of Operational Research, Systems Optimization and Decision Making with applications in the fields of energy, industry, environment, and supply chain management using methods and tools belonging to Mathematical Programming, Multicriteria Analysis and Techno-Economic Analysis. He is active in the design of biomass-to-biofuels supply chains and the techno-economic design of units producing rare earth elements from bauxite by-products. He also deals with the fields of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Dr. Paraskevas Georgiou is an Assistant Professor with specialty in “Energy and Industrial Systems Optimization with Mathematical Programming” at the Division of Management & Organization Studies of the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics of the University of Patras.

He received his Ph.D. in Operational Research and Decision Making with application to Energy Planning from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He is a Chemical Engineer from NTUA and holds a MBA from the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB) and NTUA.

He teaches the courses “Operational Research I”, “Operational Research II” and “Industrial Management” at the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics of the University of Patras, and the course “Project Management & Investment Plan Management” at the Master’s Program “Farm Business Management” of the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA). He has taught the courses “Operational Research I”, “Operational Research II” and “Decision Support Systems” at the School of Mechanical Engineering NTUA, the course “Operational Research” at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development AUA, the course “Business Decision Making with Multicriteria Methods” at the Department of Economic Sciences of the University of Peloponnese and the course “Entrepreneurship & Innovation” at the Department of Chemistry of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.

He had been appointed as a Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Sector of Industrial Management & Operational Research of the School of Mechanical Engineering NTUA and as a specialist associate in the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit NTUA. He was an innovation consultant at the Small Business Institute of the General Confederation of Professional Craft Merchants of Greece (IME GSEVEE) while he was a scientific associate at the Center for Renewable Sources & Energy Saving (CRES).

He is an external associate of the Laboratory of Industrial & Energy Economics and the Laboratory of Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry of the School of Chemical Engineering NTUA.

He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Economic Chamber of Greece, the Panhellenic Association of Chemical Engineers, and the Hellenic Operational Research Society.

• Romeos, P. Georgiou, E. Lignos, A. Giannadakis and G. Mihalakakou, 2026. From Optimization to Decision-Making: A Dynamic Simulation-Based Framework for Residential Building Design in Mediterranean Climates. Energy & Buildings, 368, 117877
• Mihalakakou, S. Malefaki A. Romaios, J., M. Souliotis, A. Paravantis, P. Georgiou and A. Giannadakis, 2026. From simulation to surrogates: Optimizing green roofs for sustainable urban performance. Sustainable Cities and Society, 145, 107439
• Paraskevas N. Georgiou, Athanasios Rentizelas, Konstantinos Kaltsoukalas, 2025. Business Models for phytoremediation-to-biofuel transformation ecosystems: A Stakeholder-Supply Chain demarcation approach. Sustainable Futures 10: 101267
• Mihalakakou, A. Giannadakis, S. Malefaki, M. Souliotis, P. Georgiou, A. Romaios, A. Antzoulatou, P. Nikolakopoulos, J. Paravantis, 2025. Coupling simulation-based and machine learning methodologies for energy optimization and environmental impact mitigation in buildings. Journal of Building Engineering 112: 113809
• Athanasios Rentizelas, Paraskevas N. Georgiou, Dimitrios Giannopoulos, Christos Stavrogiannis, Thanasis Papadakis, Ioannis T. Christou, Fragkoulis Psathas, Despina Anastasopoulos, 2025. A novel Decision Support System for designing and assessing phytoremediation-to-biofuel value chains. Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining 19: 1014-1029
• Ioannis T. Christou, Fragkoulis Psathas, Athanasios Rentizelas, Thanasis Papadakis, Paraskevas N. Georgiou, Despina Anastasopoulos, Pantelis Lappas, 2024. A Heuristic for Improving Clustering in Biomass Supply Chains. International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics 11(1):2378859
• Fragkoulis Psathas, Paraskevas Georgiou, Athanasios Rentizelas, 2022. Optimizing the design of a biomass-to-biofuel supply chain network using a decentralized processing approach. Energies 15(14):5001
• Theopisti Lymperopoulou, Paraskevas Georgiou, Lamprini-Areti Tsakanika, Konstantinos Hatzilyberis, Klaus-Michael Ochsenkühn, Fotios Tsopelas, Maria Ochsenkühn-Petropoulou, 2019. Optimizing conditions for scandium extraction from bauxite residue using Taguchi methodology. Minerals 9(4):236
• P. N. Georgiou, 2016. A bottom-up optimization model for the long-term energy planning of the Greek power supply sector integrating mainland and insular electric systems. Computers & Operations Research 66, pp. 292-312
• P. N. Georgiou, G. Mavrotas, D. Diakoulaki, 2011. The effect of islands’ interconnection to the mainland system on the development of renewable energy sources in Greek power sector. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 15(6), pp. 2607-2620