Dr. Konstantinos Gkillas (Gillas) graduated with first-class honours (9.40/10) with a BSc in Economics from the University of Crete with a specialization in Quantitative Methods in Economics. He holds an MSc in Actuarial Science and Risk Management from the University of Piraeus and a Ph.D. in Quantitative Finance from the University of Patras. He teaches at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the University of Patras and at the School of Social Science of the Hellenic Open University; concurrently, he is studying Computer Science at the Hellenic Open University.