Mrs. Natasa Mantzarea is a PhD candidate in Economics and Finance, holding a 5-year MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Natasa has served as scientific collaborator to the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) in the Network Operation Center (NOC) team, providing support to various projects, such as GEANT, the Gigabit European Academic Network, etc. Ηer main research interests are: statistics, econometrics, forecasting, networks and optimisation.