Nikolaos Samaras is a Professor at the Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Greece. He received his Bachelor of Science degree (1996) and Ph.D. degree (2001) in Applied Informatics from the University of Macedonia, Greece. Since April 2016, he has served as director of the Computational Methodologies & Operations Research (CMOR) Laboratory. He has served on the Editorial Board of Operations Research: An International Journal and as a reviewer of many journals. He has also held numerous positions within the Hellenic Operations Research Society (HELORS). He was awarded with a Thomson ISI/ASIS&T Citation Analysis Research Grant (2005).