Prof. Dimitrios Bechtsis is a member of the Laboratory of Statistics and Quantitative Analysis Methods for Supply Chains (LASCM) of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece. He also participates at the group for Sustainable Agrifood Supply Chains in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation of AUTh. He conducts research and consulting in the fields of digital supply chains, logistics, applied operational research, data analytics, and computational intelligence. He has participated in more than 35 research projects (in many of which he served as a principal investigator) in the field of Digital Supply Chain Management and Industry 5.0, and he has co-authored the respective technical reports. He has published more than 50 papers in scientific journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. He has participated as a consultant or expert in numerous projects funded by public and private organizations.