Pavlos Eirinakis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Management and Technology, University of Piraeus. He graduated from the Department of Informatics in 2002 and received his MBA in 2004 from the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). He fulfilled his PhD on structures, algorithms and applications of stable matching problems in 2010 in AUEB, Department of Management Science and Technology. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the West Virginia University, where he examined issues related to computational logic, quantified linear systems and graph algorithms. He has also worked as a Senior Researcher at the AUEB applying analytical methods in Manufacturing and Logistics, as well as continuing his work on matching under preferences. Furthermore, he has worked as an R&D engineer in the maritime industry, designing and developing optimization systems. He has taught at an undergraduate and a postgraduate level at various Greek Universities. His research has been published in several international scientific journals (incl. Mathematics of Operations Research, Omega, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Informs JOC, Algorithmica, SIDMA and others) and has been presented in various international scientific conferences. His research interests include the application of analytical methods in manufacturing through digital twins to support decisions and to identify and handle issues/disruptions in production.