Andrianos Ε. Tsekrekos is a Professor of Financial Derivatives and Real Options at the Department of Accounting and Finance of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and Director of the Laboratory of Applied Finance (FinLab) of AUEB. He is a graduate of AUEB (with a degree in Operations Research and Marketing) and holds an M.Sc. in Finance from the University of Lancaster. He received a scholarship from Lancaster University Management School as a Ph.D. Candidate in Accounting & Finance and he completed his thesis in 2003. After completing his Ph. D. thesis, he worked as a lecturer at Lancaster University (Department of Accounting and Finance) and at Durham Business School (Department of Economics and Finance) in the United Kingdom, before returning to AUEB in 2006, as a lecturer at the Department of Accounting and Finance. Between May 2021 and August 2022 he has served as the Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance.
His research interests revolve around financial derivatives, real options valuation, topics in real estate and energy, stochastic and implied volatility models, accounting information quality and its impact on capital markets. His research has been published in highly respected scientific journals, such as The Journal of International Business Studies, The Journal of Banking and Finance, The European Journal of Operational Research, The Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, The Journal of Energy Markets and European Financial Management among others.
