George Vlontzos is a Full Professor, Director of the Laboratory of Agricultural Economics and Consumer Behavior. His research interests focus on, among others, economic and environmental efficiency assessment, and on consumer behavior characteristics for agricultural inputs and foodstuff. For this, various models are being implemented like Data Envelopment Analysis, Stochastic Frontier, Artificial Neural Networks, the Theory of Planned Behaviour, the Health Belief Model, etc. He has published several papers in journals under double blind peer review evaluation and participated in international congresses and seminars. Finally, he has participated, in competitive projects co-financed by the EU, national funding as well as private funding projects. He is the coordinator of the project ALIANCE HORIZON EUROPE, a member of the NATAE HORIZON EUROPE and a member of the Grendriedfruits PRIMA.Dr. George Vlontzos teaches agricultural economics and consumer behavior at the University of Thessaly, Greece.

He was a visiting professor at the Center of Applied Optimization, University of Florida, USA from 1-2-2016 until 31-7-2016. Finally, he has a close collaboration with the Agricultural Institute of Montpellier, France, teaching consumer behavior for agricultural products and food in the MSc MIDAS program.