Dr Marios Kremantzis (SFHEA, CMBE, AFORS) is a decision scientist and Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics at the University of Bristol Business School, where he provides strategic leadership across education, pedagogic scholarship, and academic development. He currently serves as Education Lead for the Technology & Operations Academic Group, comprising over 40 academics, and as Programme Co-Director for the MSc Management and pathways portfolio, overseeing large-scale postgraduate provision for more than 700 students. He also co-chairs the Business Education Research & Scholarship (BERS) Network in the Business School. His earlier leadership roles include four years as Senior Tutor within the Business School’s Postgraduate Tutor Team (approximately 1,100 students), and three years as Programme Director for the specialist MSc Business Analytics programme (approximately 110 students). Across these roles, he has contributed to curriculum innovation, staff development, student support, quality assurance, authentic assessment, and the strategic enhancement of education across the School.

With nearly nine years of teaching, supervision, and academic leadership experience, his scholarship brings together the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL), AI-enhanced business education, and decision analytics. His work focuses on the impact of Generative and Agentic AI on learning, assessment, feedback, student engagement, and employability, alongside efficiency and productivity analysis through optimisation and Data Envelopment Analysis. He has published widely in leading international journals, including Studies in Higher Education, Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching, Expert Systems with Applications, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Sustainable Development, Operational Research, and the Journal of Global Information Management, alongside commentary in Times Higher Education and the Chartered Association of Business Schools. He has also presented his research and pedagogic scholarship at major national and international conferences, including EURO, OR Society conferences, IFORS, CABS LTSE, BAM, and the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference.

He plays a significant leadership role in the academic community. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Technologies in Education and Associate Editor of Interactive Learning Environments. He has served as Guest Editor for special issues in internationally recognised journals, including Studies in Higher Education, Evaluation Review, Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. He is also Founder and Chair of the OR Society’s Network on OR, Analytics, and Education, serves on the OR Society’s General Council and Education Sub-Committee, is a member of the EuroSoTL Special Interest Group on SoTL in Business Education, and contributes to national and European discussions on analytics education, curriculum design, and business education scholarship.

He has led initiatives exploring the role of AI chatbots and emerging technologies in higher education, while supervising doctoral, postgraduate, and undergraduate research at scale. His sustained excellence in teaching, research-informed pedagogy, and academic leadership has been recognised through multiple institutional awards, including the University of Bristol Business School’s Research Pedagogy Award (2026), Outstanding Lecturer Award (2025), Outstanding Personal Tutor Award (2024), and the Inspiring and Innovative Teaching Award at the Bristol Teaching Awards (2023). He has also received multiple nominations between 2021 and 2024, an institutional nomination for the 2026 National Teaching Fellowship scheme, and the Doctoral Director’s Award from University of Southampton in 2021.