Francisco Javier Santos Arteaga is Assistant Professor in the Department of Financial and Actuarial Economics and Statistics at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is also a researcher in the Statistical Methods and Big Data Applied to Social Sciences Group at Complutense, and the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Group of the Spanish Society of Nephrology. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of decision making and management and is an academic editor for more than ten international journals. He has participated in multiple national and international competitive research projects ranging from business and management to climate change and medicine.
Outi Behm is a PhD Student at the Business School at LUT University, Finland. She studies stakeholder collaboration and trust dynamics in green transition investment projects. She is particularly interested in the antecedents and consequences of distrust. She hopes to include aspects of digital collaboration and AI-assisted smart tools in her research to examine how AI could potentially foster trust relations between stakeholders.
Matteo Benuzzi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Trento. He received his PhD cum laude at the University of Trento. His research focuses on experimental economics and finance, and sustainable finance, with a particular interest in retail investors’ decisions. His research has been published in journals such as International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, and Annals of Finance. Before starting his PhD, he worked in financial consulting for approximately one year.
Kirsimarja Blomqvist is a Professor for Knowledge management at the Business School at LUT University, Finland. Her research interests relate to trust, knowledge management, innovation, and new digital forms of organizing expertise. She has published over 200 research articles in academic journals, books, and peer-reviewed conferences. She serves in the Editorial boards for Journal of Trust Research, Industrial Marketing Management, and Journal of Organization Design. As engaged scholar she has been developing a large-scale online temporary organizing for solving complex societal problems. She is also a founding member and board member of FINT network of trust researchers around the world.
Sandro Casal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Trento, Italy, and a member of the Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory (CEEL) at the same institution. His research interests lie in Experimental and Behavioural Economics, Public Finance, Tax Compliance Behaviour, Behavioural Public Policy, and Nudging. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics and Management from the University of Trento in December 2014. Before his current position, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Trento (2019–2025), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Milan (2015–2019) and at FAU University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2013–2015). Sandro Casal has authored several academic publications in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economic Inquiry, and PLOS ONE.
Violeta Cvetkoska is a Professor of Operational Research and Machine Learning for Management, Coordinator of Business Analytics and Data Science, and Head of the EUi Center at the Faculty of Economics-Skopje, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. She is the author of the book Business Analytics. Her research and teaching bridge advanced analytics with managerial decision-making, empowering students and professionals to thrive in data-driven environments. Prof. Cvetkoska is a member of the university’s Science Committee and the National Accreditation Board. Internationally active, she contributes to editorial boards, scientific committees, and professional societies such as AOM, CRORR, SEM, and EURO Working Groups. She will chair the Jury Committee for the EDDA Award at IFORS 2026, the world’s largest Operational Research conference. As a MonsoonSIM-certified trainer, she champions experiential and AI-enhanced learning that promotes synergy between human intuition and algorithmic intelligence.
Debora Di Caprio is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento, Italy. She is also a Researcher in the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Group of the Spanish Society of Nephrology and the ARES (ARtificial IntElligence for better tranSplant) Research Group of the Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS of Barcelona, Spain. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of mathematics, decision theory, and operations research. She is a Department Editor of Healthcare Analytics and an Associate Editor for several academic journals among which Expert Systems with Applications, Decision Analytics, and Supply Chain Analytics.
Peiman Ghasemi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna, Department of Business Decisions and Analytics. His research includes soft computing, fuzzy systems, meta-heuristic optimization, data envelopment analysis, and applied operations research. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and was previously a Research Associate at GUtech in Oman. Dr. Ghasemi holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Azad University. He serves as Associate and Guest Editor for journals with Elsevier and Springer, such as EAAI, DAJOUR and OMR. In 2024, he was ranked among the Top 2% of scientists globally by a Stanford University study.
Vittorio Guida is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Trento, where he also received his PhD in Economics and Management in 2022. His research interests include behavioral economics, decision-making, and organizational theory, particularly in the context of sustainability and governance. He has collaborated on several interdisciplinary projects involving experimental methods, computational modeling, and environmental policy. He is also experienced in programming and deploying laboratory experiments using oTree.
Vahid Hajipour holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in industrial engineering. He is an Assistant Professor at Azad University and Head of the FANAP Research Center in Iran, as well as a Visiting Professor at Altinbas University, Turkey. His research spans operations research, decision and business analytics, emerging technologies, and computational intelligence. He has authored four books and over 70 publications in leading journals and conferences. He has received multiple Distinguished Young Researcher Awards and the Distinguished Researcher Award. Dr. Hajipour was inducted into Alpha Iota Delta, the International Honor Society for Decision Sciences and Information Systems, in 2017.
Elina Hyrkäs works as a Postdoctoral researcher and teacher at Oulu Business School, Finland. She has worked as a Research Director at the Oulu Southern Institute, University of Oulu, Finland. She has done scientific research work for over 20 years, both on the national and international levels. Previously, among other things, she has directed a wide cooperation project; the focus of the project was to develop wellness as a field of research in the region of Oulu South. She has also been worked work package leader in the InDemand project (Horizon 2020, three countries in the consortium). InDemand was co-creation project with the eHealth companies and hospitals. She has also worked other Horizon 2020 projects for example MIDAS, concerning a meaningful data integration in the preventive healthcare related decision making. Her research interests include knowledge management in general and especially AI and KM, data privacy issues, innovation management, open innovation and co-creation.
Paolo Leoni works at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento as the lab manager of the Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory (CEEL). He is responsible for developing experimental software, managing the participant database, coordinating their involvement in studies, and maintaining all hardware. He has collaborated with CEEL researchers on numerous research projects, including studies focused on human–AI interaction in behavioral economics. Before joining the CEEL team, Paolo worked as a laboratory technician at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science of UniTrento, specializing in neuroscience research tools.
Päivi Maijanen-Kyläheiko is an Associate Professor at LUT University, Business School, Finalnd, where she is Head of the Viipuri Lab. Her research focuses on strategic management and organizational renewal, particularly in the context of digital transformation, media responsibility, and sustainable business models in media organizations. Her current work explores how generative AI is reshaping journalistic and organizational practices. She served for several years on the executive board of the European Media Management Association. Before academia, she had a long career in the media industry.
Luigi Marengo is professor of Economics at LUISS University in Rome. He is one of the managing editors of Industrial and Corporate Change (Oxford University Press). Before joining LUISS he was professor and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa. His main research interests are evolutionary economics, organization theory, complexity, technological change. He has published several articles in Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of Industrial Economics, Industrial and Corporate Change, Strategy Science, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, Organization Studies, and several other journals and collective books. He has also served for nine years as managing editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, published by Elsevier. He graduated at the University of Torino (Italy) and got his PhD with the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), Sussex University, UK.
Luigi Mittone is full professor at University of Trento and Visiting Professor of LUT School of Business and Management. He is Director of the Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory (CEEL) at the University of Trento. His main research interests and publications are in the field of experimental and behavioral economics: fiscal evasion theory, consumer behavior; mental modeling of uncertain events; inter-temporal choices, cooperation among agents; organizational behavior. He has authored more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters, many of them in top scientific journals.
Azzurra Morreale is an Associate Professor at LUT Business School (LBS) and Co-Head of the Viipuri Lab at the same institution. She also holds a senior faculty position at Jönköping International Business School (20%) in Sweden and has been recognized as a Docent in Strategic Financing and Decision-Making at LBS. In addition, she is affiliated with the Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory (CEEL) at the University of Trento (Italy) and has served as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research lies at the intersection of behavioral economics and finance, with a particular focus on real options reasoning and strategic decision-making under uncertainty. More recently, she has begun exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming decision-making processes and financial strategies.
Markus Mäkelä is the Head of AI of the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, a university executing a comprehensive AI capability development roadmap. Dr. Mäkelä’s background is in both business, where he has worked in or with several industries, and academia. He is a strategy scholar and a former professor of software development with a continuing interest in product development, among other functions.
Elena Nissing is a junior researcher and PhD student at LUT Business School since December 2024. She holds a master's degree in Human-Technology Interaction from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and has an academic background in cognitive science and experimental methods. Elena also brings professional experience as a user experience researcher in the automotive industry. Her research interests focus on digital collaboration in the age of AI, particularly how to enable effective collaboration on digital platforms. She explores key aspects such as engagement, trust, and asynchronous collaboration, and aims to investigate how AI is perceived in digital collaboration and whether—and how—it can enhance engagement.
Associate Professor Eeva-Liisa Oikarinen earned her PhD in Marketing from Oulu Business School in 2018 and became a Docent in Marketing, specializing in consumer interaction behavior, at the University of Turku in 2023. Her earlier research explored the limits of humor, playfulness and humanness in recruitment advertising, service encounters and innovation management. Passionate about AI-facilitated service interactions and multidisciplinary, she is building a research group in Biomarketing. She leads a project using Biomarketing tools to explain transformative bot-human companionships. She has published in European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research and Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services among others.
Jarno Pasonen is a PhD student and a junior researcher at LUT Business School, where he investigates the transformative role of generative AI in journalistic knowledge work. In his dissertation, he explores how agentic technologies reconfigure boundaries and reshape practices in media organizations, with a focus on agency, leadership, knowledge management, and collaborative innovation. His current research emphasizes qualitative methods, drawing on theoretical insights from information systems and organization studies. Through this work, he aims to contribute to emerging debates on human-AI collaboration, the evolution of professional work, and the changing landscape of journalism and the institutional press.
Khanh Phan is a first-year PhD student at LUT Business School. His research investigates the adoption of artificial intelligence within sustainable entrepreneurship. He focuses on how founders use AI to create and augment ventures with circular economy principles. Also, he studies how qualitative methods can be augmented by the use of local LLMs as a personal side project.
Matteo Ploner is a Full Professor of Economics at the University of Trento, Italy. His research focuses on human decision-making, using rigorous experimental methods to explore how psychological factors influence economic choices. His work spans a wide array of topics, from tax compliance and financial bubbles to energy conservation, consistently bridging the gap between psychology and economics. Professor Ploner’s extensive publication record and his collaborations with prominent international scholars underscore his significant contributions to the field.
Irene Vega Ramon is a junior researcher at LUT university. Her background is in philosophy, business, and data science. In their intersection, she is studying meaning augmentation with language models in organizations. Generally, she is interested in the development, implementation, and use of emerging technologies in practice. She uses longitudinal ethnographic methods. Her supervisors are prof. Paavo Ritala and dr. Letizia Mortara.
Atta ur Rehman is a marketing professional with a Bachelor's in Marketing from Pakistan and a Master’s from the University of Oulu, Finland. He has around four years of experience in marketing and business development in Pakistan. During his Master’s, he completed an Erasmus internship in the Czech Republic and another in Finland after graduation. He was awarded the Talent Hunt Scholarship during his Bachelor’s and the Finland Scholarship during his Master’s, and also served as a University Ambassador at University of Oulu. He is in the process of being a PhD student and will soon join the Biomarketing research group at Oulu Business School led by Associate Professor Dr. Eeva-Liisa Oika.
Paavo Ritala is a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the Business School at LUT University, Finland. His main research themes include ecosystems and platforms, the role of data, algorithms, and digital technologies in organizations, and circular and regenerative economy. His research has been published in outlets such as Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, and Academy of Management Perspectives. Prof. Ritala is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of R&D Management and serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of Product Innovation Management and Organization & Environment.
Wojciech Sałabun (Senior Member, IEEE) received his M.S. (2010) and Ph.D. (2018) degrees in information technology and computer science from the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland. Since 2019, he has been an Assistant Professor and Head of the Research Team on Intelligent Decision Support Systems at the same university. In 2022, he was appointed Institute Professor at the National Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw. He is the author of over 200 scientific articles and has completed more than 2000 peer reviews. He serves as Associate Editor for several high-impact journals and Editor-in-Chief of one impact factor journal. He is also actively involved as chair in numerous international scientific conferences. His research interests include soft computing, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM), uncertainty modeling, and artificial intelligence methods.
Andrii Shekhovtsov earned his M.S. degree in Information Technology and Computer Science from the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland, in 2022. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the same institution, focusing his research on personalised decision models in multi-criteria decision-making. He is an active member of the Research Team on Intelligent Decision Support Systems at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin and also serves as a research specialist at the National Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw, Poland. With over 70 publications in the decision-making domain, he has been recognised with multiple scholarships for his outstanding scientific contributions.
Tuuli Toivikko (M.Sc. in Knowledge Management and Leadership, M.A. in Media Studies) is a junior researcher at the Business School at LUT University, Finland. She is working on her doctoral dissertation focused on Technology-mediated collaboration in large groups focuses on the social and digital affordances for knowledge work. Toivikko is also a researcher involved in a project related to artificial intelligence and trust, funded by the Strategic Research Council (SRC) within the Research Council of Finland. Prior to joining LUT and engaging in research, Toivikko's previous experience was in communications and project management.
Shayala Yesmin is a PhD researcher in Business Studies at LUT Business School, based in Lahti, Finland. Currently working as a junior researcher in the Sales Team at LUT Business School. Her research focuses on the intersection of digital technologies and AI-powered value creation within B2B digital platform settings. Before joining LUT University, Shayala completed a master’s degree in Digital Marketing and Corporate Communication from the University of Jyväskylä. With over seven years of experience in university teaching across business and marketing disciplines, she gained a strong foundation in academic instruction, curriculum development, and student mentoring. Her scholarly contributions include peer-reviewed journal articles and international book chapters on emerging topics such as blockchain, the metaverse, and digital payment systems.
