Charalampos Agiropoulos

Charalampos L. Agiropoulos is Assistant Professor of Economic Analysis in the Department of Economics at the University of Piraeus, which he joined in 2024. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics/Econometrics (2018) and an M.Sc. in Applied Statistics (2007) from the University of Piraeus, as well as a B.Sc. in Mathematics (2002) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Before joining the Department, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of International & European Studies at the University of Piraeus and a senior researcher at the Gnosis Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology (USA), specializing in computational finance and econometrics. He has also served as an external research scientist at the National Institute of Labor & Human Resources and the Greek Atomic Energy Commission. Alongside his academic career, he has extensive industry experience: he is the co-founder and former CEO of TMEDE Microfinance Solutions, the first licensed microlending institution in Greece, and served as Chief Risk & Investment Officer of the Engineers and Public Works Contractors Fund (TMEDE).

His research interests lie in applied econometrics, computational finance, labor economics and environmental economics, with a focus on the influence of the shadow economy on regional competitiveness within the EU and on applying machine learning techniques to financial time-series analysis. His work has been published in academic journals such as the International Journal of Finance and Economics, Applied Economics Letters and International Advances in Economic Research, and presented at numerous international conferences.