Associate Professor in "Agri-food Supply Chain Management"

Foivos Anastasiadis is an Associate Professor at the Agricultural University of Athens in the field of "Agri-food Supply Chain Management". He holds a PhD from Imperial College London and an MSc from Wageningen University. He has published more than 50 articles in scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. He has participated in many European and national research projects. He is also a reviewer for various scientific journals.

Research

Indicative national research projects:

• ELIDEK/ΕΛΙΔΕΚ (2018-2021) for postdoctoral researchers (co-PI), TruStFoodS “Development of an Innovative Traceability System for Controlling Food Safety in Sustainable AgriFood Supply Chains” funding from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) and the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), under grant agreement No [1786]
• AgroETAK/ΑγροΕΤΑΚ (2014-2015) Postdoc (PI) "Sustainable Development of Botanical Gardens: the case of the Balkan Botanical Garden of Kroussia"

Indicative European and international research projects:

• ECOREADY (2022-2026): Achieving Ecological Resilient Dynamism for the European food system through consumer-driven policies, socio-ecological challenges, biodiversity, data-driven policy, sustainable futures. HORIZON-CL6-2022-CLIMATE-01-04 (Grant Agreement 101084201)
• FP7 REGPOT (2012-2015) Project: GREEN-AgriChains. Innovation Capacity Building by Strengthening Expertise and Research in the Design, Planning and Operations of Green Agrifood Supply Chains.
• Balkan-Mediterranean 2014-2020, Project Proposal with Acronym “SMecoMP” (Ref. No. 2376/ 4/26/2016)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) «Sustainable Land and Forest Management in Greater Caucasus Landscape, Azerbaijan»
• Transforming India’s Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable food Supplies (Tigr2ess), funder: UK BBSRC NMZM/324, RG88282
• Project READY, “Resilient Agrifood Dynamism through evidence based policies” funding from the Collaborative Research Program Grant 2019 – Ministry of Education UAE.

Selected publications

Anastasiadis, F., Apostolidou, I., & Tsolakis, N. (2025). Challenges and opportunities of supply chain traceability: insights from emergent agri-food sector. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 30(1), 106-126. doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-05-2024-0322 

Anastasiadis, F., Manikas, I., Apostolidou, I., & Wahbeh, S. (2022). The role of traceability in end-to-end circular agri-food supply chains. Industrial Marketing Management, 104, 196-211. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2022.04.021

Anastasiadis, F. and Tsolakis, N. (2021). Environmental hotspots analysis: A systematic framework for food supply chains and implementation case in the UK poultry industry. Journal of Cleaner Production, 305, 126981. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126981

Archontakis, F. and Anastasiadis, F. (2019). Technology and Innovation during recession: the case of Greek Agri-food sector. International Journal of Technology Management & Sustainable Development 18(1), 17-36. doi: 10.1386/tmsd.18.1.17_1

Anastasiadis, F., & Poole, N. (2015). Emergent supply chains in the agrifood sector: insights from a whole chain approach. Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, 20(4), 353-368. DOI: 10.1108/SCM-08-2014-0259