DrKonstantinos I. Stouras

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

School of Business

  • Lecturer/Assistant Professor
    School of Business
  • 0833521286
  • University College Dublin, School of Business, Graduate School of Business Carysfort Avenue Blackrock Co. Dublin

BIO

Konstantinos (Kostas) Stouras is Assistant Professor of Operations Management at UCD, Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. He has lived and worked in Greece, France, Singapore, USA and Ireland.

Konstantinos received BSc/MSc degrees in Applied Mathematics and Physics, and in Financial Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (ΕΜΠ) and after working as an Actuary for Prudential he also received MSc/PhD degrees in Operations Management from INSEAD. His research and teaching focuses on business model innovation and crowdsourcing marketplaces, and he worked on these topics with several companies including the work-from-home call center LiveOps.com, BVLGARI, Liddle, DHL, and the ad revenue management startup Voiro.com.

In addition to his academic and consulting engagements, Konstantinos is passionate about entrepreneurship. He founded OperationsAcademia.org in 2014 which is currently being used by 200+ universities worldwide to facilitate advertising positions and hiring faculty in Operations and Analytics. He continues to actively engage with startups as a technical advisor and mentor.

Prior to joining UCD, Konstantinos spent two years at the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow working on open innovation. He is a Board Member of the TIMES community of INFORMS and his research has appeared in FT50 management journals including Management Science and Harvard Business Review, and in prominent peer-reviewed conferences such as the Proceedings of ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. Follow him on Twitter @stourask.

DEGREES

  • PhD
    INSEAD France and Singapore