Dimitri Konstantas appointed Honorary Professor of the GSEM

Professor Dimitri Konstantas has been appointed Honorary Professor of the Geneva School of Economics and Management at the University of Geneva as of 1 August 2024.

He was appointed Full Professor of Information Systems and Service Science on 1 October 2002 within the Haute École Commerciale (HEC) section of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (SES). Since the creation of the Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM) in January 2014, he has been affiliated with the Institute of Information Science (ISI), now renamed the Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science (RISIS).

Professor Konstantas has always been an active member of the institution. Notably, he served as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences from 2007 to 2014, university representative to the SWITCH Foundation from 2008 to 2015, elected member of the Staff Commission from 2014 to 2023, Director of the GSEM’s Information Science Institute for ten years starting in 2014, member of the GSEM participatory council from 2017 to 2024, President of the GSEM participatory council from 2017 to 2019 and again from 2021 to 2024, and Director of the MAS in Information Security from 2011 to 2024.

Since his appointment as Full Professor, Professor Konstantas has participated in and led more than 25 European and Swiss research projects, covering areas such as mobile services, e-commerce, e-health services, and information security. He brought over 12 million Swiss francs in funding to the University of Geneva and has over 200 publications in international conferences, journals, books, and book chapters.

Starting in 2018, he became active in the field of shared mobility solutions, with the goal of developing user-centered, economically viable, and sustainable urban mobility services using fully automated vehicles. He had the privilege of initiating and successfully coordinating the European Union's flagship project, AVENUE (with a funding of 15 million euros), which aimed to validate the use of autonomous vehicles for public transportation. In 2022, he also initiated and served as associate coordinator (due to Switzerland’s exclusion from the Horizon Europe program) for the EU's ULTIMO project (with a funding of 40 million euros), which aims to deploy the first commercially viable large-scale public transport service using automated vehicles. To ensure the continuity of all these projects, Professor Konstantas will continue post-retirement activities for two academic years until July 2026.