Michael Polemis is an Associate Professor of Industrial Economics at the Department of Economics and a Member of the Hellenic Competition Commission. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Athens. His main areas of research include industrial organization, competition policy, and regulation, and energy and environmental economics. Based on IDEAS RePEc’s ranking list, he is currently ranked (April 2022) at the Top 10% of economists globally and at the Top 5% of economists in Greece according to eleven criteria (this ranking takes into account only publications in the last 10 years for authors registered with the RePEc Author Service). He has more than 1570 citations that appeared in Google Scholar (April 2022). He has published more than 100 papers in many distinguished scientific journals--some of which are leading in the field--such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Economics Letters, Regional Studies, International Business Review, The Energy Journal, Energy Economics, Journal of Environmental Management, Empirical Economics, Economic Modelling, among others. He has written five scientific books and serves as a member of the editorial board of the European Competition Journal. He participates in many international conferences in Greece and abroad.