Dimitris Fouskakis received his Bachelor degree in Mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece (1991–1995) and then he obtained a Masters degree in Computational Statistics (1995–1996), followed by a PhD in Statistics (1997–2001) from Bath University in the UK.
After graduating, he worked as a research associate within the Department of Community Based Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bristol, UK and then within the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Athens Medical School, Greece.
In 2004 he was appointed Lecturer in Statistics at the National Technical University of Athens, in 2009 he was promoted to an Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics and in 2014 to an Associate Professor. Since 2020 he is a Professor of Applied Statistics in the Department of Mathematics, at the National Technical University of Athens.
Currently he is also the Program Chair of the Objective Bayes Section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.
His primary research interests include the areas of Bayesian model selection, objective Bayes methods, MCMC methods, prior specification, stochastic optimization algorithms, Bayesian methods for institutional quality assessment, Bayesian decision theory, statistical disclosure control, data confidentiality, biostatistics and epidemiology.
He has given numerous conference presentations and invited lectures and he is an active referee for several journals in the area of statistics.
He has collaborated on research projects with various universities and has organized three international conferences/workshops with great success.
He has visited many Universities abroad as a visiting Professor to deliver courses and for research collaborations.
He is the author of a book on Data Analysis with R (in Greek) and the co-author of an undergraduate textbook in Statistical Theory and Applications (in Greek).
He has taught various undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Statistics and Probability in Greece and abroad and he has supervised several Last Year Undergraduate Diplomas and Master Projects and one PhD Thesis.
