Dr Petros Chamakiotis (BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA) is an Associate Professor of Management (2019-present) and the Scientific Director of the MSc in Digital Project Management & Consulting (2020-present) at ESCP Business School in Madrid, Spain; a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex Business School where he is affiliated with the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (an £8m, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC-)funded research centre in the UK); and a Strategic Associate at the iLEADS Lab at the University of Piraeus in Greece.
Petros read Economics at the University of Piraeus and then moved to the University of Bath in the UK where he earned his MSc in Management and Strategic Information Systems and later his PhD in the same area with the support of a scholarship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). He subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Royal Holloway, University of London (2013-2015), and was appointed Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the University of Sussex (2015-2019). He obtained Fellowship status of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2016 and tenure in 2017. While at Sussex, Petros held visiting teaching positions at Birkbeck, University of London and the University of Valencia. He has supervised one PhD student to completion (2016-2019), and he has been an External Examiner at King's College London (2021).
His research and teaching interests focus on the management of technology-mediated forms of work, such as virtual teams, hybrid working, online communities and digital platforms. At present, he works on research projects on: newcomers and onboarding in global virtual teams; hybridity enactment and its impact on boundary work; professionalism on digital platforms; and knowledge decolonisation on digital platforms in the Global South.
He has generated research income from prestigous funders, such as The British Academy, and he publishes his reserach primarily in information systems and management journals, as well as in edited collections, and the professional and popular press. Some of his recent outputs include:
- A radio interview on the future of work post-Covid-19 on Skai 100.3 (at 01:10:11; in Greek).
- An article, "Consejos para fomentar el trabajo virtual sostenible", in Equipos & Talento (in Spanish).
- A teaching case, "'Going Global' Virtually: Smithfield's (Digital) Expansion and Survival", in SAGE Business Cases.
He currently serves as an Associate Editor (AE) for the Information Systems Journal and he has been an AE and Track Chair at numerous international conferences. See his Publons profile for his editorial and reviewing experience. He also maintains strong links with the professional community, e.g., through workshops, speeches/panels at practitioner events and other forms of (often online) research dissemination activities. During the years 2018-2021, he was the Chair of the IFIP Working Group 9.5 'Our Digital Lives'.
Petros lives in Madrid, holds Greek (EU) and British citizenship, speaks English, Greek and Spanish fluently (C2), and has an intermediate knowledge of German (B1).