Ioannis Basiakos is an Professor at the University of Athens, Department of Economic Sciences. He studied Mathematics at the University of Athens and Statistics at Northeastern University in Boston (USA) where completed his doctoral studies. His scientific research focuses in Applied Statistics, Biostatistics, Sampling Theory and Design, Monitoring and Analysis of Surveys, and Innovation and R&D assessment.
He has been teaching statistical inference and sampling techniques methods courses in the undergraduate level, and univariate and multivariate methods in the graduate level of the Department.
He has been professionally involved in consulting for the European Commission (the pilot project «MEASURING WHAT MATTERS TO EU CITIZENS: SOCIAL PROGRESS IN THE EUROPEAN REGIONS», EC, DG Regio, Late Payment Directive (Project ref. 2231), EUROMED, MORE I, ISTPact, and ERAWATCH projects and CISIII in Greece) conducting the sampling design and analysis as well as quality control of various deliverables. Previous positions held were at the National School of Public Administration and Institute of Continuing Education (Athens, Greece), the National School of Public Health (Athens, Greece) and the public opinion research firm V-P.R.C. (Athens, Greece), and the AIDS Statistical & Data Analysis Center at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. He has published over forty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference proceedings.