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Stelios Bekiros | |
|---|---|
Στέλιος Μπεκίρος | |
| Born | |
| Education | National Technical University of Athens Athens University of Economics and Business |
| Known for | APOCALYPSE Research Foundation; Global Apocalypse Index (GAI) |
| Awards | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (×3, 2011 / 2013 / 2015); Max Weber Fellow (2008–2009); Stanford/Elsevier World's Top 2% Scientists (2020–2025); Full Member, Sigma Xi (2025) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Econometrics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Econophysics |
| Institutions | University of Turin University of Malta University of Padua European University Institute London School of Economics IPAG Business School |
| Website | www |
Stelios Bekiros (Greek: Στέλιος Μπεκίρος; born in Athens, Greece) is a Greek artificial intelligence engineer, computer scientist, economist, university professor and academic. He holds a Chair Full Professorship of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Economics at the School of Management and Economics, University of Turin (UniTo).[1] He has previously held the Joint Chair Full Professorship of FinTech, Econometrics and Data Science at the University of Malta and the University of Turin (2021–2024) and was elected Full Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Padua (2019).[2] Bekiros is the founder of APOCALYPSE Research Foundation and the developer of the Global Apocalypse Index.[3]
Bekiros's research spans artificial intelligence and machine learning, econometrics, big-data science, FinTech, blockchain technology, complex systems and econophysics. As of 2026 his work had received more than 16,000 citations according to Google Scholar, with an h-index of 67 and an i10-index of 217.[4] He has held three Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships (2011, 2013, 2015) and one Max Weber Fellowship (2008–2009) of the European Commission.[2][5]
Education
[edit]Bekiros received his Dipl.-Ing / BEng (1998) and MEng (1999) in Electrical and Computer Engineering — with specializations in robotics, control systems, software engineering, machine learning and artificial intelligence — from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).[2] He obtained an MSc in Decision Sciences (2001), specializing in artificial intelligence, financial engineering, operational research and statistics, and his PhD in FinAI, Big Data Science and Machine Learning Econometrics (2005, conferred with the highest distinction), from the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB).[2]
Bekiros holds four Italian National Scientific Habilitations (ASN-MIUR) at the Full Professor (Prima Fascia) level, certified by official attestations of the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) issued in February 2025:[6]
- 13/A2 – Economic Policy (N. 41469, valid 2017–2029)
- 13/A5 – Econometrics (N. 41470, valid 2017–2029)
- 13/D2 – Economic Statistics (N. 41471, valid 2017–2029)
- 13/D4 – Mathematical Methods for Economics, Actuarial and Financial Sciences (N. 41468, valid 2017–2029).
Career
[edit]Early positions and European Commission fellowships
[edit]In 2006 Bekiros served as Assistant Professor of Finance and Financial Markets at the Utrecht School of Economics.[2] Between 2006 and 2008 he was Research Fellow at the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF), Department of Quantitative Economics, University of Amsterdam, funded by a Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) project on information flows in financial markets.[2] In early 2008 he was appointed Postdoctoral Fellow at EURANDOM of the Eindhoven University of Technology, working on the European Investment Bank-funded EIBURS project on multivariate jump-Lévy modelling of credit risk.[2]
Between 2008 and 2017 he was successively awarded four European Commission research fellowships hosted at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence: the Max Weber Programme (2008–2009), and three Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF, 2010–2011; FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG, 2012–2015; H2020-MSCA-IF NAUTILUS, 2015).[2] During 2009–2010 he was concurrently Senior Officer and Advisor at the Centre of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE) attached to the Hellenic Ministry of Finance.[2]
Professorships
[edit]In 2019 Bekiros was elected Full Professor of Economic Statistics ("Professore Ordinario") at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padua.[2] From January 2021 to September 2024 he held the Joint Chair Full Professorship of FinTech, Econometrics and Data Science at the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy of the University of Malta, held jointly with the School of Management and Economics of the University of Turin.[2] Since February 2023 he has been Chair Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Econometrics at the School of Management and Economics, University of Turin.[2]
He has also held a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor position at the LSE Health Centre, London School of Economics (2021–2023), and a Research Senior Affiliated Fellow position in Financial Engineering at IPAG Business School in Paris (2014–2024).[2] He has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis since 2013 and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute since 2015.[2] Since September 2024 he has served on the Elector Registry Board of the Academy of Athens Center for Natural Hazards Research and Crisis Management.[2]
Research projects
[edit]From January 2023 to June 2024 Bekiros was Principal Investigator on the Horizon-CL4-2022-DATA-01 project "Promoting and Incentivising Federated, Trusted, and Fair Sharing and Trading of Interoperable Data ASsets" (PISTIS), a 104-partner consortium coordinated by the Fraunhofer Society.[2] He has also led or participated in projects funded by Horizon 2020, FP7, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the European Investment Bank, LABEX ReFi in Paris and the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, and has supervised more than twenty postdoctoral and doctoral researchers.[2]
Editorial positions
[edit]Bekiros is editor-in-chief of Economics — Innovative and Economic Research Journal (De Gruyter) and of the Journal of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies, and an editorial member of Reviews of Economic Literature (Stanford University Press).[2] He serves or has served on the editorial boards of more than twenty international journals, including PLOS ONE, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, Computational Economics (Springer), the Journal of Economic Surveys, Risk Analysis and the Journal of Forecasting (Wiley), and the International Review of Financial Analysis and Finance Research Letters (Elsevier).[2][5] He received the Best Reviewer Award of the European Journal of Operational Research in 2010 and of the Journal of Empirical Finance in 2015.[2]
Recognition
[edit]Bekiros has been listed annually from 2020 through 2025 in the World's Top 2% Scientists ranking, an Elsevier/Stanford citation-impact study compiled by John P. A. Ioannidis and colleagues.[7][8] In the 2025 edition he ranks within the top 0.2% of all listed scientists worldwide and at position 10 of 6,491 authors in his primary sub-field.[2]
According to ScholarGPS he holds the lifetime designation of "Highly Ranked Scholar" within the top 0.24% of all listed scholars worldwide and is ranked first globally in Management Science and Control, 141st in Economics and 178th in the Social Sciences.[9] The IDEAS-RePEc bibliographic service places him in the top 5% of all-time authors by h-index.[10] The AD Scientific Index lists him in the top 1% of economists worldwide for 2025, first in Italy by i10-index over the last six years and second among economists in Italy overall.[11]
In November 2025 he was inducted as a Full Member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society.[2] He is a member of the Econometric Society, the Royal Economic Society, the European Economic Association and the Euro Area Business Cycle Network.[2]
APOCALYPSE Research Foundation and Global Apocalypse Index
[edit]In 2026 Bekiros founded the APOCALYPSE Research Foundation, under whose auspices he developed the Global Apocalypse Index (GAI, GAI-x, GAI-y) and the system "APOCALYPSE: A Big-Data Provenance-Anchored Multi-Agentic Artificial Intelligence Early Warning System (EWS) for Real-Time Monitoring, Nowcasting and Forecasting of Global Catastrophe Risk".[3]
He is the inventor on two patents filed under the Paris Convention: IE PTIE20260000000318 (APOCALYPSE v1) and IE PTIE20260000000354 (APOCALYPSE v2).[3]
Selected publications
[edit]Books and edited volumes
[edit]- Bekiros, S. (2004). Quantitative Methods in Finance. Athens: Gutenberg Publishers. ISBN 9604021737.
- Hamori, S., Takiguchi, T., Bekiros, S. (Eds., 2020). AI and Financial Markets. ISBN 9783039362240.
- Volos, C., Pham, V.-T., Bekiros, S. (2021). Mem-elements for Neuromorphic Circuits with Artificial Intelligence Applications. Elsevier Academic Press. ISBN 0128211849.
- Chu, J., Nadarajah, S., Chan, S., Zhang, Y., Bekiros, S. (Eds., 2021). Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies. ISBN 9783039435333.
- Sathye, M., Li, S., Bekiros, S. (Eds., 2021). Financial Statistics and Data Analytics. ISBN 9783039439751.
Journal articles
[edit]- Bekiros, S. D., Diks, C. G. H. (2008). "The relationship between crude oil spot and futures prices: Cointegration, linear and nonlinear causality". Energy Economics 30 (5): 2673–2685. doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2008.03.006.
- Bekiros, S. D. (2010). "Heterogeneous trading strategies with adaptive fuzzy Actor–Critic reinforcement learning: A behavioral approach". Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 34 (6): 1153–1170. doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2010.01.015.
- Bekiros, S. D. (2010). "Fuzzy adaptive decision-making for boundedly rational traders in speculative stock markets". European Journal of Operational Research 202 (1): 285–293. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2009.04.015.
- Bekiros, S., Marcellino, M. (2013). "The multiscale causal dynamics of foreign exchange markets". Journal of International Money and Finance 33: 282–305. doi:10.1016/j.jimonfin.2012.11.016.
- Bekiros, S. D. (2014). "Exchange rates and fundamentals: Co-movement, long-run relationships and short-run dynamics". Journal of Banking & Finance 39: 117–134. doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2013.11.007.
- Bekiros, S. D. (2015). "Heuristic learning in intraday trading under uncertainty". Journal of Empirical Finance 30: 34–49. doi:10.1016/j.jempfin.2014.11.002.
- Bekiros, S., Cardani, R., Paccagnini, A., Villa, S. (2016). "Dealing with financial instability under a DSGE modeling approach with banking intermediation: A predictability analysis versus TVP-VARs". Journal of Financial Stability 26: 216–227. doi:10.1016/j.jfs.2016.07.006.
- Bekiros, S., Boubaker, S., Nguyen, D. K., Uddin, G. S. (2017). "Black swan events and safe havens: The role of gold in globally integrated emerging markets". Journal of International Money and Finance 73: 317–334. doi:10.1016/j.jimonfin.2017.02.010.
- Bekiros, S., Nguyen, D. K., Sandoval Junior, L., Uddin, G. S. (2017). "Information diffusion, cluster formation and entropy-based network dynamics in equity and commodity markets". European Journal of Operational Research 256 (3): 945–961. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2016.06.052.
- Bekiros, S., Nilavongse, R., Uddin, G. S. (2018). "Bank capital shocks and countercyclical requirements: Implications for banking stability and welfare". Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 93: 315–331. doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2018.01.049.
- Lahmiri, S., Bekiros, S. (2019). "Can machine learning approaches predict corporate bankruptcy? Evidence from a qualitative experimental design". Quantitative Finance 19 (9): 1569–1577. doi:10.1080/14697688.2019.1588468.
- Karasu, S., Altan, A., Bekiros, S., Ahmad, W. (2020). "A new forecasting model with wrapper-based feature selection approach using multi-objective optimization technique for chaotic crude oil time series". Energy 212: 118750.
- Segnon, M., Bekiros, S. (2020). "Forecasting volatility in bitcoin market". Annals of Finance 16 (3): 435–462. doi:10.1007/s10436-020-00368-y.
- Uddin, G. S., Yahya, M., Bekiros, S., Jayasekera, R., Kling, G. (2021). "Systematic risk in the biopharmaceutical sector: a multiscale approach". Annals of Operations Research 330 (1–2): 243–266. doi:10.1007/s10479-021-04402-8.
- Bekiros, S., Nasir, M. A., Nguyen, D. K. (2025). "Ecological Risk Modelling, Risk Management, and Environmental Challenges in the 21st Century". Risk Analysis 46 (1). doi:10.1111/risa.70163.
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Stelios Bekiros — Faculty profile, Dipartimento di Management 'Valter Cantino'" (in English and Italian). University of Turin, Department of Management 'Valter Cantino'. Retrieved 2026-08-10.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 "Stelios Bekiros — Faculty profile, University of Turin" (in English and Italian). University of Turin, Department of Management 'Valter Cantino'. Retrieved 2026-08-10.
- 1 2 3 "Global Apocalypse Index — APOCALYPSE Research Foundation". Retrieved 2026-08-10.
- ↑ "Stelios Bekiros — Google Scholar profile". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2026-08-10.
- 1 2 "Professor Dr. Stelios Bekiros — biographical sketch". Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN). Retrieved 2026-08-10.
- ↑ "Italian Ministry of University and Research — National Scientific Habilitation attestations N. 41468, 41469, 41470, 41471". Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca. Retrieved 2026-08-10.
- ↑ Ioannidis, John P. A. (2025). "August 2025 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"". Elsevier Data Repository / Mendeley Data. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.8.
- ↑ "Stelios Bekiros — Top Scientists Profile". topscinet.com. Retrieved 2026-08-10.
- ↑ "Stelios Bekiros — ScholarGPS profile". ScholarGPS. Retrieved 2026-08-10.
- ↑ "Stelios Bekiros — IDEAS/RePEc author profile". Retrieved 2026-08-10.
- ↑ "Stelios Bekiros — AD Scientific Index profile (1870087)". Retrieved 2026-08-10.
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