Currently, Professor Dr. Panos Fitsilis is full Professor at University of Thessaly, Greece. Previously Prof. Fitsilis was Professor at University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly (UAST), visiting professor at Innopolis University, Kazan, Russian Federation and Lecturer at Hellenic Open University (HOU).
Prof. P. Fitsilis has extensive project management experience with the development and deployment of large IT systems and extensive management experience in various senior management positions such as: Director of School of Business and Economics at UAST, Vice President of UAST Research Committee, Head of Project Management department at UAST, Director of Research Laboratory «Business Information Systems and eCommerce», Head of Business Unit (BU) at Intrasoft International, a large international IT company, etc. During his work as BU manager at Intrasoft International he was responsible for the development, deployment and operation of a number of prestigious IT systems for European Commission, (CORDIS, and Electronic Proposal Submission System - EPSS), European Parliament, European Central Bank, etc.
He has worked in more than 50 research or commercial IT projects, in various roles (programmer, project manager, quality engineer, BU manager, consultant). He is the author of four books: “Contemporary Business Information Systems, 2nd edition”, “A practical guide to entrepreneurship – case studies”, “Software Project Management”, “Object Oriented Development using UML” and author of more than 100 papers published at scientific journals and international conferences. His research interests include Smart Cities, Business Information Systems, Social Media Applications, Internet of Things, Software Project Management, etc.
Currently, he is member of working group for «Smart and Viable Cities» at Hellenic Standardization Organization ELOT, member of ITU initiative "United for Smart Sustainable Cities" (U4SSC), member of Regional Board for «Research and Innovation» for the Region of Sterea Ellada, Greece, evaluator at European Commission Horizon 2020, etc.
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