Laboratory Members
Faculty members
Seraina Anagnostopoulou
Professor of Financial Accounting, Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Greece Director of the Green Finance and Banking (GreenFin) Laboratory
Seraina C. Anagnostopoulou is Professor of Financial Accounting at the University of Piraeus, Department of Banking and Financial Management and currently serves as the Head of Department. She undertook doctoral studies on a scholarship at the Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School, City University, London, UK, from which she obtained a Ph.D. in Accounting in 2007. She is also a CFA Charterholder. She graduated from AUEB with a B.A. in Economics in 2001, and also holds an M.Sc. in International Securities, Investment and Banking from the ICMA (former ISMA) Centre, University of Reading, UK (2002). Before joining the University of Piraeus in 2019, she held academic positions at the ESCP Business School-London Campus, the Henley Business School – University of Reading, and the Athens University of Economics and Business during years 2007-2019, while she was an academic visitor at the Queen Mary University of London during 2015-2016, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in the summer of 2018. She is also a Research Affiliate of the Adam Smith Observatory of Corporate Reporting Practices, University of Glasgow, UK. She has extensive teaching experience in financial and management accounting at undergraduate and postgraduate levels since 2005, and she is a Fellow of Advance HE of the UK.
Her research focuses on accounting quality and earnings management, accounting conservatism, market-based accounting research and financial statements analysis, the economic consequences of IFRS adoption, CSR and R&D-related valuation issues, and is very frequently presented at academic conferences. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Corporate Finance, European Accounting Review, Journal of Banking and Finance, Accounting and Business Research, the International Journal of Accounting, the Journal of Financial Services Research, the British Accounting Review, the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, the International Review of Financial Analysis, and the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, among other journals. She regularly serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several academic journals, and she is an editor for the International Journal of Accounting, and also a member of the Editorial Board of the British Accounting Review, the Journal of International Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation, the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting and the Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies. She is a member of the European Accounting Association and the CFA Institute.
A detailed CV can be found here: https://bankfin.unipi.gr/en/faculty/seraina-anagnostopoulou
Angelos Antzoulatos
Professor of Banking, University of Piraeus
Angelos A. Antzoulatos is Professor of Banking at the Department of Banking and Finance of the University of Piraeus. He is a graduate of the National Technical University of Athens (1984) and of the Stern School of Business – New York University (MBA, 1986, and Ph.D., 1992).
He has worked at the International Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (New York Fed, 8/1994-5/1998) and taught at Stern (1990-1998). He has also served the University of Piraeus as Vice-Rector (9/2002-8/2005), and been teaching at the Hellenic Open University since 2007.
At Stern, he got the Herman E. Kroos best doctoral dissertation award (1992) and two STERN-Citibank awards for excellence in teaching (1992, 1995).
He has written three books (in greek): Governments, Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy (2nd edition, 2019), A short guide to the slippery road of Grexit (2017) and Banking – Management & Strategy (2020).
Prof. Antzoulatos’ research interests currently focus on banking, macroprudential policy and financial crises. The main theme is how supervision, together with macroeconomic policy, may address market frictions and failures as a result of which banks exacerbate the economic and financial risks economic agents face and crises occur.
Dimitrios Gounopoulos
Professor of Accounting and Finance, University of Bath, UK
Professor Dimitrios Gounopoulos is a professor in accounting and finance in the School of Management, University of Bath. He specialises in the initial public offerings (IPOs) and climate change he is known for his continuous research involvement in those field. Dimitrios has published in international journals including Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Management Studies, Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and Economic History Review among others. He is an occasional columnist in Columbia University, School of Law prestigious CLS Blue Sky Blog on issues relating regulations intervention. Professor Gounopoulos is an independent IPOs consultant and he is a collaborator of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
A detailed CV can be found here: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/dimitrios-gounopoulos
Anestis Ladas
Associate Professor of Accounting, Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Macedonia, Greece
Anestis Ladas is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Department of Accounting and Finance, School of Business Administration, University of Macedonia. He graduated from the Department of Economics, Aristotle University and holds an MSc in International Securities, Investment and Banking from the ICMA Center, The University of Reading, UK and a PhD in Accounting from the Department of Accounting and Finance of the University of Macedonia, Greece. He is the current Chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Macedonia, while he has been an Alternate Member of the Special Account for Research Funds, University of Macedonia and an Alternate Member of the Quality Control Board of the Hellenic Accounting and Auditing Standards Oversight Board (HAASOB). His research has been published in international scientific journals such as The International Journal of Accounting, the Journal of Financial Stability, the European Journal of Finance, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and the International Review of Financial Analysis. Moreover, he has coauthored a book on Internal Control and Risk Management.
A detailed CV can be found here: https://sites.uom.gr/aladas/
Doctoral candidates
Eleni Kagia
PhD student at the Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Greece
Eleni Kagia is a PhD candidate at the University of Piraeus, Department of Banking and Financial Management working on “Accounting Quality and Market-Based Outcomes”. She holds a BA in Economics with specialty in Business Administration at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Economics, ranked first in Class of 2019. She graduated as Second Lieutenant at Hellenic Air Force from Hellenic Military Academy of Combat Support Officers with specialty in Economics, ranked third in Class of 2019. She also obtained an M.Sc. in Banking and Financial Management at University of Piraeus, Department of Banking and Financial Management, ranked second in Class (Full-time) of 2022. She was awarded for academic excellence in her bachelor studies. She also earned a full scholarship for her master studies.
She has been working since November 2019 as Financial Administrator of Foreign Military Supplies at 201 Hellenic Air Force Central Supply Depot, located in Elefsis. She was promoted to First Lieutenant in November 2023.
Her current research focuses on earnings management around Mergers & Acquisitions.
Her Linkedin profile can be found here: www.linkedin.com/in/eleni-kagia-2b5bb21b9
Ioannis Katsoulas
PhD student at the Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Greece
Giannis Katsoulas is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus. His doctoral dissertation focuses on specialized research topics in relation to asymmetric cost behavior. He has presented his research progress in the EUFIN and HFAA Conferences. He holds a BSc in Business Administration from Athens University of Economics and Business, a BSc in Political Science and Public Administration from University of Athens, and an M.Sc. in Accounting and Finance from Athens University of Economics and Business, aided through the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Scholarship Programme. He is also a graduate of the National School of Public Administration and Local Government of Greece, specialized in Health Care Services’ Administration. He has extensive work experience in the accounting sector, and currently works as a government employee.
Anastasios Moutsiounas
PhD student at the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Macedonia, Greece.
Anastasios Moutsiounas is a PhD candidate at the Department of Accounting and Finance, School of Business Administration, University of Macedonia. He holds a BA in economics from the Department of Economics, University of Macedonia and an MSc in Accounting and Auditing, Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Macedonia. His dissertation focuses on textual analysis measures of financial disclosures’ comparability. His research has been presented at the HFAA Conferences. He was awarded scholarships for academic excellence in his postgraduate studies and a scholarship from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) for his PhD studies. He is a chartered accountant candidate and currently works as an accountant, tax and business consultant.