Dr. Achilleas Vassilopoulos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics of the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. He holds an BSc, an MBA and a PhD in consumer theory from the same department and has served as as a tenured assistant professor at the Department of Economics, University of Ioannina, Greece and a visiting scholar at the University of Arkansas, USA (Dale Bumpers College, Dept. of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness). He has worked a consultant-economist for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO) and has participated in more than ten EU-funded projects on behalf of both public and private institutes in Greece and abroad.

His research interest focuses on the analysis of economic behavior using quantitative and experimental methods. His academic work has been published in journals such as Economic Modelling, Economics Letters, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Consumer Affairs, European Review of Agricultural Economics and others.