DUTH
Democritus University of Thrace
Democritus University of Thrace (D.U.Th.) was founded in 1973 and started to run in the academic year 1974-1975. It was named ‘Democritus’ in honor of the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus, whose origin was from the town of Abdera in the Prefecture of Xanthi, Greece. The administrative seat of the University resides in the city of Komotini, Greece and its running multiple campuses, in the cities of Xanthi, Komotini, Alexandroupolis, Orestiada, Drama, Kavala.
Democritus University of Thrace is classified among the biggest Greek Universities in terms of the number of its active student population. The outline of the course curricula on offer covers the majority of modern scientific subjects starting from the School of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, the Schools of Health Sciences and Education Studies, the Schools of Law, Classical and Humanity Studies, Social, Political and Economic Studies and the School of Physical Education and Sports. The international academic dimension of the institution in combination with the longitudinal commitment of its staff to the quality of the educational services it provides have as an immediate consequence the creation of a dominant footprint in the academic timeliness of our country and the wider geographic area.
Within a vividly changing environment, D.U.Th. continues to aim both at educational and research excellence while, it also builds upon the challenges and demands of the future. It re-orients its research strategy based upon innovation, entrepreneurship, technology, the new digital era, the growth of large-scale research and thepursuit of financial resources from various agencies both in Greece and abroad. D.U.Th. seeks to reinforce its research profile through collaborations and projects that render it one of the leading research organizations in Greece.
Kavala Campus
Kavala Campus of DUTh hosts two undergraduate Schools with their respective Departments, as well as several postgraduate Programmes. School of Economics and Management includes Department of Accounting & Finance and Department of Management Science & Technology. School of Science includes Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, Department of Computer Science.
Academics
Dimitrios Kourtidis
Dr. Dimitrios Kourtidis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Accounting and Finance, Democritus University of Thrace, Kavala Campus, Greece. He received his PhD in Finance from Glasgow Caledonian University, UK and he holds a Master degree in Finance, University of Greenwich, UK and BSc in Accounting, Serres Institute of Technology, Greece.
His teaching experience includes Accounting and Finance courses in postgraduate and graduate level in International Hellenic University, Open University of Cyprus, Hellenic Open University and Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology. He also worked in the Independent Authority for Public Revenue in Greece. He has published a number of well received papers in academic journals and he is active on the conference scene.
His current research interest is Behavioural Finance.