Academic Council

The Academic Council consists of all members and friends of the Association who organize a conference or other events. It also includes the editors of ATINER’s e-journals. In addition, the President may invite academics from all over the world to serve as members of the council. The position is an honorary position and our association cannot pay a salary or cover any other costs. As a non-profit, non-government and non-partisan association, we rely solely on members’ fees and members’ voluntary work to cover our expenses. According to ATINER’s constitution the academic council discusses the academic matters of the Association such as the conference academic subjects, the organization of other events, the publication of books and journals, etc. The academic council members can also assist as editors of ATINER’s Journals and serve as Directors-Heads of the Divisions and Units of ATINER. Currently, the academic council consists of the following members (in alphabetical order):

Title	Name	ATINER	Position/Affiliation	Country
Dr.	Toivo Aavik	Academic Member	Head & Associate Professor, Department of Personality and Social Psychology, University of Tartu	Estonia	cv
Dr.	Nadhir Al-Ansari	Vice President of Projects, Co-Editor Athens Journal of Sciences & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Technology & Engineering	Professor, Lulea University of Technology	Sweden	cv
Dr.	Orna Almog	Deputy Head, Politics & International Affairs Unit	Senior Lecturer (Retired), Kingston University	UK	cv
Dr.	Douglas E. Angus	Co-editor, Athens Journal of Health	Full Professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa	Canada	cv
Dr.	Vincenzo Asero	Academic Member	Assistant Professor, University of Catania	Italy	cv
Dr.	Thanos Athanasopoulos	Academic Member	Senior Lecturer, De Montfort University Leicester	UK	cv
Dr.	Maria-Irini Avgoulas	Academic Member	Casual Academic, School of Health, Medical & Applied Sciences, CQUniversity Australia and Cultural Counselling and Consultancy	Australia	cv
Dr.	Amos Bar-Eli	Academic Member	Senior Lecturer, HIT - Holon Institute of Technology	Israel	cv
Dr.	Peter Walther Baur	Deputy Head, Arts & Culture Unit	Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg	South Africa	cv
Dr.	Robert Bishop	Head, Philosophy Unit, ATINER	Professor, Wheaton College	USA	cv
Dr.	Daniel Binns	Academic Member	Lecturer, RMIT University	Australia	cv
Dr.	Sharon Claire Bolton	Vice President of Research & Head, Management Unit	Emeritus Professor, The Management School, University of Stirling	UK	cv
Dr.	Zoe Boutsioli	Vice President of Publications & Associate Editor Athens Journal of Health			cv
Dr.	Glen Bright	Academic Member	Dean of Engineering, University of KwaZulu Natal	South Africa	cv
Dr.	Philip G. Cerny	Director, Social Sciences Division & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Social Sciences	Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester and Rutgers University	UK & USA	cv
Dr.	Carol Anne Chamley	Head, Nursing Unit	Associate Professor, School of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University	UK	cv
Dr.	Maria Luisa Chiarella	Academic Member	Associate Professor, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro	Italy	cv
Dr.	Jayoung Che	Director, Center for European & Mediterranean Affairs (CEMA)	Visiting Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies	South Korea	cv
Dr.	Kenneth Christie	Head, Politics & International Affairs Unit	Professor, Royal Roads University	Canada	cv
Dr.	Jim Clark	Head, Psychology Unit	Professor, University of Winnipeg	Canada	cv
Dr.	Thomas P. Corbin	Academic Member	Associate Professor, American University in Dubai	UAE	cv
Dr.	Paul Contoyannis	Head, Health Economics & Management Unit & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Health	Associate Professor, McMaster University	Canada	cv
Dr.	Maria Rosaria D’Acierno Canonici	Academic Member	Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope”	Italy	cv
Dr.	Nikolaos Dimakis	Deputy Director, Sciences Division	Professor and Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	USA	cv
Dr.	Bronne Dytoc	Academic Member	Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University	USA	cv
Dr.	Mark Fagiano	Deputy Head, Philosophy Unit, ATINER	Assistant Professor, Washington State University	USA	cv
Dr.	Nicole Farris	Academic Member	Associate Professor, Texas A&M University	USA	cv
Dr.	Grigorios Fountas	Academic Member	Lecturer, Edinburgh Napier University	UK	cv
Dr.	David A. Frenkel	Head, Law Unit & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Law	LL.D., Emeritus Professor, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, and School of Law Carmel Academic Centre, Haifa	Israel	cv
Ms.	Eliza Gardiner	Deputy Head, Arts & Culture Unit	Professor, Vancouver Island University	Canada	cv
Dr.	Dr. Parisa Gazerani	Head, Pharmaceutical Unit	Professor, Oslo Metropolitan University	Norway	cv
Dr.	Teodoro Georgiadis	Deputy Head, Environment Unit	Senior Research Associate, Institute of Biometeorology	Italy	cv
Dr.	Dimitrios Goulias	Head, Civil Engineering Unit	Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, University of Maryland	USA	cv
Dr.	Patricia Hanna	Vice President of Academic Affairs	ex-Dean & Professor Emerita, University of Utah	USA	cv
Dr.	José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano	Academic Member	Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University	UK	cv
Dr.	Lavinia Olivia Iancu	Academic Member	Lecturer, Tibiscus University of Timisoara	Romania	cv
Dr.	Melinda Ickes	Academic Member	Associate Professor, University of Kentucky	USA	cv
Dr.	Oidinposha Imamkhodjaeva	Deputy Head, Philosophy Unit, ATINER	Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University	USA	cv
Dr.	Adrian Ionescu	Head, Computer Science Unit, Co-Editor Athens Journal of Sciences & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Technology & Engineering	Professor, Wagner College	USA	cv
Dr.	Frederic Jallat	Deputy Director, Business, Economics and Law Division, Athens Institute	Professor, ESCP Business School	France	cv
Dr.	Peter Jones	Co-editor, Athens Journal of Tourism	Professor of Management, University of Gloucestershire	UK	cv
Dr.	Steven Jonas	Co-Organizer, Public Health Conference	Professor Emeritus, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook University	USA	cv
Dr.	Evangelia Kasimati	Head, Tourism, Leisure & Recreation Unit & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Tourism	Researcher, Department of Economic Analysis & Research, Central Bank of Greece	Greece	cv
Dr.	Kenneth Christie		Program Head and Professor, Royal Roads University	Canada	cv
Dr.	Chin-Tai Kim	Academic Member	Professor, Case Western Reserve University	USA	cv
Dr.	Maria Kosma	Head, Sports Unit & Co-Editor, Athens Journal of Sports	Associate Professor, Louisiana State University	USA	cv
Dr.	Peter Koveos	Head, Finance Unit	Professor, Syracuse University	USA	cv
Dr.	Jerzy Ladysz	Academic Member	Assistant Professor, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology	Poland	cv
Dr.	Jesus J. Lara	Head, Urban & Regional Planning Unit & Co-editor, Athens Journal of Architecture	Professor, Michigan State University	USA	cv
Dr.	Nick Linardopoulos	Head, Education Unit & Co-editor, Athens Journal of Education	Associate Teaching Professor & Public Speaking Course Coordinator, Rutgers University	USA	cv
Dr.	Błazej Lyszczarz	Academic Member	Assistant Professor, Nicolaus Copernicus University	Poland	cv
Dr.	Domenico Maddaloni	Head, Sociology Unit & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Social Sciences	Professor, University of Salerno	Italy	cv
Dr.	Bala Maheswaran	Director, Engineering & Architecture Division	Professor, Northeastern University	USA	cv
Dr.	Michael P. Malloy	Director, Business, Economics and Law Division & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Law	Distinguished Professor & Scholar University of the Pacific	USA	cv
Dr.	Andriana Margariti	Head, Medicine Unit	Professor, Queen’s University Belfast	UK	cv
Dr.	Nicholas Marudas	Head, Accounting Unit & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Business & Economics	Associate Professor, Mercer University	USA	cv
Dr.	Angela McCarthy	Co-Organizer, Religion & Theology Symposium	Senior Lecturer in Theology, University of Notre Dame	Australia	cv
Dr.	Stamos Metzidakis	Head, Literature Unit & Editor Athens Journal of Philology	Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA & Adjunct Professor of French, Hunter College-CUNY, USA	USA	cv
Mr.	Athanasios Mihalakas	Co-Organizer, Development Studies & International Trade Symposium	Assistant Professor, The State University of New York, at Brockport	USA	cv
Dr.	Fouad A Mohammad	Academic Member	Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University	UK	cv
Dr.	Nikos Mourtos	Head, Mechanical Engineering Unit & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Technology & Engineering	Professor, San Jose State University	USA	cv
Dr.	Ampalavanar Nanthakumar	Director, Sciences Division	Professor, State University of New York at Oswego	USA	cv
Dr.	Mario Nicoliello	Deputy Head, Sports Unit	Researcher, Universiry of Brescia	Italy	cv
Dr.	Radebe Nompumelelo	Deputy Head, Anthropology & Demography Unit	Senior Lecturer and Chair, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology	South Africa	cv
Dr.	Jorge Emilio Nunez	Academic Member	Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University	UK	cv
Dr.	Steven Oberhelman	Editor, Athens Journal of History	Professor of Classics, Holder of the George Sumey Jr Endowed Professorship of Liberal Arts, and Interim Dean, Texas A&M University	USA	cv
Dr.	Aslı Gül Öncel		Associate Professor, Galatasaray University	Turkey	cv
Dr.	Nicolas Papadopoulos	Editor of Marketing Books	Distinguished Research Professor, Carleton University	Canada	cv
Dr.	Nicholas Pappas	Vice President of Academic Conferences and Meetings	Professor, Sam Houston University	USA	cv
Dr.	Paola Partenza	Academic Member	Associate Professor, "G. d'Annunzio" University	Italy	cv
Dr.	Nicholas Patricios	Vice President of Strategic Planning & Analysis & Editor Athens Journal of Architecture	Professor & Dean Emeritus, School of Architecture, University of Miami	USA	cv
Dr.	John Pavlik	Head, Mass Media and Communication Unit & Co-editor, Athens Journal of Mass Media & Communications	Professor, Rutgers University	USA	cv
Dr.	George Priovolos	Director, Center for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CSME)	Professor, Iona College	USA	cv
Dr.	Krassi Rumchev	Academic Member	Associate Professor, Curtin University	Australia	cv
Dr.	Debdatta Saha	Academic Member	Assistant Professor, South Asian University	India	cv
Dr.	Tennyson Samraj	Academic Member	Professor, Burman University	Canada	cv
Dr.	Chris Sakellariou	Vice President of Finance & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Business & Economics	Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	cv
Dr.	Haiduke Sarafian	Head, Natural Sciences Unit	Professor of Physics and Endowed Chair of John T. and Paige S. Smith Professor of Science, The Pennsylvania State University	USA	cv
Dr.	Samuel Seaman	Academic Member	Professor, Pepperdine University	USA	cv
Dr.	Virginia Sisiopiku	Head, Transportation Engineering Unit & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Technology & Engineering	Professor, The University of Alabama at Birmingham	USA	cv
Dr.	Ian Skoggard	Academic Member	Research Anthropologist, Human Relations Area Files at Yale University	USA	cv
Dr.	Ori Soltes	Head, Arts & Culture Unit	Professor, Georgetown University	USA	cv
Dr.	Gerhard Speckbacher	Academic Member	Professor, WU Vienna	Austria	cv
Dr.	Valia Spiliotopoulos	Head, Languages & Linguistics Unit	Instructor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, The University of British Columbia	Canada	cv
Dr.	Lisa Stansbie	Academic Member	Dean, The Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University	UK	cv
Dr.	Codruta Simona Stoica	Head, Mathematics & Statistics Unit	Professor and Vice-Rector, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad	Romania	cv
Dr.	Haralambos Symeonidis	Head, Languages & Linguistics Unit, Athens Institute	Professor, University of Kentucky	USA	cv
Dr.	Seppo Suominen	Co-Editor, Athens Journal of Sports	Senior Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences	Finland	cv
Dr.	Henry Thompson	Head, Economics Unit, ATINER	Emeritus Professor, Auburn University	USA	cv
Dr.	Natasa Tomic-Petrovic	Academic Member	Professor, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, University of Belgrade	Serbia	cv
Dr.	Theodore Trafalis	Head, Industrial Engineering Unit & Co-Editor Athens Journal of Technology & Engineering	Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Director, Optimization & Intelligent Systems Laboratory, The University of Oklahoma	USA	cv
Dr.	George S. Tsagaris	Deputy Head, Sociology Unit	Associate Professor, Cleveland State University	USA	cv
Dr.	Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers	Director, Athens Center for Classical & Byzantine Studies (ACCBS)	Associate Professor, The University of Alabama	USA	cv
Dr.	Apostolos Tsiachristas	Co-editor, Athens Journal of Health	Senior Researcher, Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Dept. of Population Health, University of Oxford	UK	cv
Dr.	Saif Uddin	Director, Center for Environmental Pollution, Climate & Ecology (CEPCE)	Senior Research Scientist, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research	Kuwait	cv
Dr.	Julia Underwood	Co-editor, Athens Journal of Business and Economics & Co-editor, Athens Journal of Education	Professor, Azusa Pacific University	USA	cv
Dr.	Demos Vardiabasis	Vice President of Business and Public Affairs	Professor of Economics, Pepperdine University	USA	cv
Dr.	Cleopatra Veloutsou	Head, Marketing Unit	Professor, Department of Business and Management, University of Glasgow	UK	cv
Dr.	Christo Vosloo	Academic Member	Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg	South Africa	cv
Dr.	Patrick Vyncke	Co-editor, Athens Journal of Mass Media & Communications	Professor of Communication Management, Department of Communication Sciences, Ghent University	Belgium	cv
Dr.	Andrew Ward	Honorary Head, Philosophy Unit, ATINER	Honorary Life Fellow in Philosophy, University of York	UK	cv
Dr.	David Philip Wick	Director, Arts, Humanities and Education Division	Retired Professor, Gordon College	USA	cv
Dr.	Anna Winiarczyk-Raźniak	Deputy Head, Urban & Regional Planning Unit & Co-editor, Athens Journal of Architecture	University of the National Education Commission	Poland	cv
Dr.	Mervyn J. Wighting	Deputy Director, Arts, Humanities and Education Division, Athens Institute and Professor & Program Chair	Professor, Regent University	USA	cv
Dr.	Timothy Young	Director, Center for Data Science (CDS) and Head, Agriculture Unit, ATINER	Emeritus Professor, The University of Tennessee, USA & CEO and President, T.M. Young Institute, LLC	USA	cv
Dr.	Barbara Zagaglia	Head, Anthropology & Demography Unit	Associate Professor, Marche Polytechnic University	Italy	cv
Dr.	George Zahariadis	Director, Health & Medical Sciences Division	Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland	Canada	cv