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Currently serving as an Associate Professor in Strategy and Digital Innovation at the University of Southampton, Andreas Alexiou specializes in topics related to Digital Transformation and Digital Innovation, focusing on the philosophical and ethical aspects of technology, as well as its political dimensions. His research has been published in prominent journals including Long Range Planning, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Regional Studies, and Technological Forecasting & Social Change. He is dedicated to student inclusion and gender equality, actively engaging in the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee at the University of Southampton. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Center for Study & Career Success at Erasmus University, contributing to a research project that developed goal-setting interventions beneficial to thousands of students. His work also explores the effective design of educational technologies, such as Serious Games and Virtual Worlds, aimed at enhancing higher education. He holds a B.A. in International & European Economic and Political Studies and two M.Sc. degrees, one in International Economics from the University of Macedonia, Greece, and the other in Information Systems Management from Warwick Business School, UK. He received his PhD in Strategy from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in 2016 as a Marie Curie fellow in the ITN project MANETEI, which studied the management of emerging technologies and their socio-economic impacts. Andreas is involved in multiple EU research consortia, collaborating with leading academic, industry, and government organizations to explore the implications of digitalization on strategic innovation.