Nikiforos Panourgias

Dr. Panourgias joined the Department of Accounting and Finance of the School Of Business and Management in October 2022 as Senior Lecturer in Fintech. His research and teaching are in the area of the social studies of technologies relating to markets, finance, and accounting. Prior to joining QMUL, Dr. Panourgias was Associate Professor of Financial Markets Information Systems at the University of Leicester School of Business. He was also engaged as Senior Research Fellow (August 2020 – December 2022) on the Fintechnext project at University Collage Cork in Ireland. The project undertook research on technological innovation in financial services and contributed to the development of specific Fintech solutions in the areas of foreign exchange and emissions forecasting and trading. Before the University of Leicester, Dr. Panourgias was Assistant Professor at the Information Systems and Management Group of Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, having joined WBS as a post-doctoral researcher in September 2008 to work on an ESRC-funded project on interdisciplinary collaboration in the design and development of digital games. For his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science Dr. Panourgias studied the development of the Euroclear platform for the cross-border settlement of securities transactions.