Dr. ANGELIKI POULYMENAKOU is Associate Professor in Information Systems Management in the Department of Management Science and Technology of Athens University of Economics and Business. Also, she is currently Director of Information Systems Technology Laboratory (ISTLab) and Scientific Coordinator of the ISTLab/ OIS research unit. She has served as lecturer in Information Systems in the Informatics Department of the Athens University of Economics and Business and in the Information Systems Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She holds a first degree in Mathematics (Athens), and MSc and PhD degrees in Information Systems (London School of Economics and Political Science). Her current research interests focus on information technology enabled change and particularly on the study of technological intervention in the areas of organizational learning, knowledge management, dynamic organisational networks from an Information Systems perspective and on the study of virtuality.

Over the past years she has participated in over 15 ESPIT, IST, and Greek government funded research projects. She has offered consultancy work to the European Commission, DG Information Society (on the socio-economic impact of electronic commerce, the emergence of new organisational forms, the evaluation of proposals and projects on related issues in FP5), as well as to the Greek Government (Ministries of Development and of Employment on e-Business and the impact of the Information Society respectively). She is a member of the co-ordinating committee of the Greek e-business forum (Ministry of Development).

Her several publications in international journals and conferences draw from the full range of activities outlined above. She has published or edited more than 5 books, 15 book chapters and more than 80 papers in scientific journals and in the proceedings of international scientific conferences. She has served as a member of the scientific committee of international conferences in the information systems field (ICIS, ECIS, IFIP, MCIS) and has acted as a referee in several international journals in the same field. In 2003 she chaired the organisation of the IFIP joint WG8.2 and 9.4 Conference on Information Systems and Globalisation, in Athens. In 2009 she organized the workshop “Images of Virtuality: Conceptualizations and Applications in everyday life” (IFIP, WG9.5).