Dean
Dean
The Dean of the School of Engineering, Mr. Georgios K.D. Saharidis is an Associate Professor in Operational Research Methods in Industrial Management and Director of the CLab, Computer Laboratory (https://clab.mie.uth.gr/). He participates in the National Council for Supply Development and Competitiveness, he is the founder and scientific responsible for the pan-Hellenic network www.GreenYourAir.org which records the air quality in over 10 regions in Greece and he is the director of the International Conference on Energy, Sustainability and Climate Crisis which has been organized in Greece and abroad for the last 11 years.
Dr. Georgios K.D. Saharidis, has served as vice president in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2022 to 2024. His research areas are: Optimization, operations research, environmental engineering, freight transportation, supply chain, logistics, decision support systems, urban and intercity transport, emission calculation models etc.
He is scientifically responsible and principal investigator in over 25 European, national and private projects and group member in more than 10 research projects. In his recent research, he has developed specialized applications for city and intercity transportation means, for air quality monitoring, and for green vehicle routing.
Dr. Saharidis has published over 40 scientific journal papers and over 100 conference proceedings and book chapters. He is an invited editor in more than 10 special editions of scientific journals. The scientific authorship of the work has over 2000 references, h-index 23 and i10-index 31.