Thanks for inviting me. I know this is for a good cause, and it's good to always share knowledge with you or people in this field you I guess researchers. I'm originally from Cyprus. I lived my childhood years there and then I moved to New York where I got my first degree and then I moved to Cambridge in the UK where I did my PhD. And I've been in the UK for the last fifteen years or so back and forth. I had a gap of four years going back to my home country in Cyprus even though there it's primary teaching oriented institutions. So, I came back to the Warwick Business School where I've been for the last six years or so. In terms of my personal time, I enjoy doing Brazilian Ju-Jitsu and sometimes I even compete which is quite challenging, but it's quite interesting because the preparation for a competition mentally and physically is quite interesting and it makes you reflect on the number of things. I also enjoy going outdoors for hiking with my son and my partner. So, I'm quite an active guy. This is like judo. It's like a grappling sport.

We have one undergraduate and two graduate programs that are owned and supported by the Information Systems and Management group here at the Warwick Business School, and the undergraduate program is targeted towards digital entrepreneurship and innovation with topics ranging from programming to strategy and innovation, and then the two graduate programs one of them is more MIS oriented where the second is targeted towards business consulting, And the jobs that students get after completing their studies range from business and IT consultancy jobs, analyst jobs and and also more technically oriented jobs depending on the background of the student. We're very close to London so that is very attractive for students who are only an hour away. That's the biggest market for us but also Birmingham which is also twenty minutes away from here. So, we are in the middle to the two biggest cities in the UK so that makes this quite attractive and we do have a high success rate in placing our students.

Yeah, I have a strong interest in how infrastructures and more recently platforms are developed and governed, and I approached these social movements towards changing the ways groups and individuals organize themselves towards collective action. So, I'm very much interested in organizing and governance and and how that leads to different innovation tasks. So, some of the major projects I have worked on include the development of a national health infrastructure in the UK, the national program for IT. I've also looked at regional health infrastructure in Crete. That's in Greece. With my students I've looked at, and also some of my colleagues here in WBS, I also looked at health infrastructures in Kenya and also financial infrastructures in the UK and the US, mobile payment infrastructures in Bangladesh and more recently I started a new research project looking at smart electricity infrastructures in South Africa. And I started looking at the problem of collective action and infrastructure development from science and technology studies but then I moved towards communication theory, cognitive science and on also more recently economics. So, I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly trying to understand what's the best way to conceptualize developments that span organizational boundaries and involve a number of different groups that have heterogeneous interests. Therefore, they need different incentives for them to participate and collaborate in collective efforts. So, I'm very much, very much interested in training strategies and how different stakeholders negotiate positions around new infrastructures while trying to address a number of business and social problems. Oh, thank you for that. I mean I'm hoping that the research will be impactful. I mean this is for the next generation of researchers to assess and for the people that receive the research in different empirical context. So, yeah, thank you for that comment.