Professor Dr Chris Voudouris Honorary Professor, Computer Science Department City Associates, Centre for Computational Finance & Economics (CCFEA) University of Essex

Research Manager Optimisation and Collaboration Technologies BTexact Technologies	e-mail: chris.voudouris at bt.com web:  http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/voudcx/

Professor Voudouris is a Honorary Professor to the Department of Computer Science, University of Essex from 2005 (formerly Visiting Fellow 1 October 1998 - 30 September 2001).

Professor Voudouris is also a member of the City Associates in the Centre for Computational Finance and Economics (CCFEA) at Essex from 2004.

Professor Voudouris is an expert in scheduling, optimization, heuristic search and business applications of Operational Research and Artificial Intelligence techniques. His master piece in research is Guided Local Search.