A. Papana is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She graduated from the Department of Mathematics, AUTH (2003), and received her PhD from the School of Engineering, AUTH (2009), with a dissertation on nonlinear statistical analysis of time series.

As a postdoctoral researcher, she led the projects:

• “Development of multivariate causality measures for the detection of direct causal effects – application to macroeconomic and financial time series” (2012–2015)
• “Merging complex financial interactions with portfolio construction techniques” (pocote.uom.gr) (2018–2021)

She has extensive teaching experience at AUTH and at Technological Educational Institutes (Sindos, Serres, Kavala). Her research focuses mainly on: econometrics and time series analysis, information theory, causality methods, stationarity, cointegration, nonlinear dynamical systems, Monte Carlo simulations and surrogate data methods, complex networks, and chaos. She has published numerous papers in international scientific journals and conferences.