Qualifications
- PhD / DPhil (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Summary
Dr Dionysios Demetis is a Reader in management systems at the Hull University Business School.
He is also Vice-Chair of the Humber Business Resilience Forum which promotes a secure Humber region by enhancing the cybersecurity of its businesses.
Dr Demetis holds a PhD on anti-money laundering and information systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
He is the author of two books and numerous other publications while his research on anti-money laundering has been featured in the United Nations bibliography and received funding from the European Commission. He is a Senior Editor at the Journal of Information Systems Security.
He has received a best paper award from the 4* listed Journal of the Association for Information Systems and a Best Publication Award from the Senior Scholars of AIS.
Book
Book Chapter
Organised crime - the cyber dimension
Demetis, D. (2023). Organised crime - the cyber dimension. In B. Rider (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Organised Crime (177-194). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802201369.00014
Journal Article
The Case for Lean Cybersecurity Leadership
Flostrand, A., Park, A., Demetis, D., Kietzmann, J., Pitt, L., & McCarthy, I. (2025). The Case for Lean Cybersecurity Leadership. MIT Sloan Management Review, 66(3),
Cybercrime: Understanding the Current State of Literature and Issues Facing CISOs
Ferreira, C., Park, A., Kietzmann, J., Demetis, D., Flostrand, A., Mccarthy, I., Pitt, L., & Dabirian, A. (2024). Cybercrime: Understanding the Current State of Literature and Issues Facing CISOs. IT Professional, 26(2), 83-89. https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2024.3375571
Value Sinks: A Process Theory of Corruption Risk during Complex Organizing
Hazy, J. K., Lichtenstein, B., Demetis, D. S., Backström, T., & Dooley, K. J. (2023). Value Sinks: A Process Theory of Corruption Risk during Complex Organizing. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 27(3), 319-350
Research interests
Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Cybercrime, Systems Theory, 2nd order cybernetics
Lead investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
Sponsorship - Systems thinking
Funder
DEFRA
Grant
£13,222.00
Started
1 October 2021
Status
Ongoing
Project
Thinking beyond the can': Mainstreaming UK beans in healthy meals (BeanMeals)
Funder
BBSRC Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Counc
Grant
£227,723.00
Started
5 April 2022
Status
Complete
Project
Understanding Boundary Judgment Dilemmas in Global Food Security Projects
Funder
University of Oxford
Grant
£15,200.00
Started
1 August 2018
Status
Complete
Co-investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
KTP R4 2022-23 Adopting a Circular Economy Business Model for Resource Efficiency in ICT industry (ACE4ICT)
Funder
Innovate UK
Grant
£89,238.00
Started
3 July 2023
Status
Ongoing
Project
PBIAA NNZA: Bridging the Skills Gap and Advancing Net Zero: Generating Impact through Logistics Innovation in the Humber Region
Funder
EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Grant
£64,962.00
Started
1 May 2025
Status
Ongoing
Postgraduate supervision
Dr Demetis welcomes applications in
- Anti-money laundering
- Information systems (including cybersecurity from a social science perspective)
Current PhD supervisions
- Mohammad Al Shammari
- Nadia K. Samara
- Noemi Tambe