Our team (A-Z)

Antonis Galanopoulos

A political theorist with PhD in discourse theory. He is a member of the FEPS Young Academics Network. His work has been published in collective volumes and peer-reviewed journals. He serves as the scientific director, ensuring that the political content of our app is accurate and in line with our values.

Christos Politis

A project manager and business analyst with 5 years of full-time experience managing research projects (e.g., Horizon projects). He studied Economics at the University of Amsterdam (MSc). His role is to coordinate the team and contribute to the design of the app functions. He has also done the audience, sector, and business analysis for our app.

Dolina Tziozora

A lawyer and human rights advocate specialising in gender equality topics. She has scientific publications on women's rights and is the founder of Normes, a non-profit, educational, and non-partisan group that promotes gender equality and LGBTQI rights. Her role is to create content (quizzes and posts) on topics related to gender equality.

Eleni Tsouroupaki

A psychologist specialising in social and peer pressure topics and toxic positivity. She has studied psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (MSc). Her role is to create content (quizzes and posts) on mental health and asses the phycological impact of our app on the users' emotions (e.g., inspire and avoid giving them anxiety).

Elias Raptis

BA in European Studies from Zuyd University. His internships at the Consulate General of Greece in Istanbul and the ERA-LGBTI Association bolstered his expertise in Human Rights Law and Cultural Diplomacy. He is fluent in six languages and fully dedicated to advancing human rights. His role is to create content (quizzes and posts) for LGBTI+ issues.

Iliana Zarafidou

An advocate for environmental consciousness. She studies chemical engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BSc) and specialises in renewable energy sources. She often participates in protests about climate and volunteers in related festivals. Her role is to create content (quizzes and posts) on environmental topics.

Iosif Halavazis

A political communication specialist and expert on conspiracy theories. He is a PhD candidate in Communication and Media at the University of Athens. He has also worked as a political communication consultant and journalist. His role is to design our communication strategy and create content (quizzes and posts) on conspiracy theories.

Maria Tsouroupaki

A software developer who specialises in designing services for GenZ. She studied computer science at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BSc) and runs her own business (an e-shop that shares the same target groups as our app). Her role is to design the app functions, create mock-ups, and note technical specifications for the developers.

Orestis Vravosinos

An economist and PhD candidate at New York University. He has worked as a research assistant and teacher. He has received a grant from the NSF and a fellowship from the MacCracken program. His role is to create content (quizzes and posts) for policies and viewpoints about the economy that progressive-leftist people support.

Foivos Tsiklias

An advocate for a stronger democracy and solidarity for refugees. He has an MSc in Contemporary Journalism from the Hellenic Open University (Greece) and has worked with refugees in an NGO, helping them to integrate into Greek society. His role is to create content (quizzes and posts) against racism and fascism and for a stronger democracy

Advisory Board (A-Z)

Babis Papaioannou

Babis Papaioannou is a Policy Officer at the European Commission, based in Brussels, where he specializes in youth policy development. He serves as a Seconded National Expert within the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC). Currently a PhD candidate in Political Sciences at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Babis also holds a Master's degree in European Youth Policies and a Bachelor's in Economics. His career includes significant roles such as the Coordinator of Thessaloniki European Youth Capital 2014 and the Director of Strategy for Tripoli, Arcadia's bid for European Capital of Culture 2021. Babis is noted for his extensive involvement with major youth organizations in Europe, contributing to areas like youth work, digital youth work, and local youth policy development​​.

Dora Giannaki

Dora Giannaki is a political scientist specializing in security & justice and youth politics. Currently, she serves as a member of the Pool of European Youth Researchers (PEYR) of the EU-CoE Youth Partnership. At the same time, she is the Secretary General of the Hellenic Political Science Association (HPSA) and a research associate at the Centre for Political Research at Panteion University (Athens, Greece). Since 2009, she has been collaborating as a research associate and as a political and policy advisor with members of the Greek Parliament and governmental bodies, including the Greek General Secretariat for Youth. Dora has participated in numerous national and European programmes on Youth, Security, Intercultural Education, and Human Rights. Among other roles, she was a member of the research team that drafted the Greek national policy strategy ‘Youth 2017-2027: Strategic Framework for the Empowerment of Youth’ (May 2018).

Dr. Evangelos Pournaras

Dr. Evangelos Pournaras is Professor of Trustworthy Distributed Intelligence in the School of Computing at University of Leeds. He is also a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (£1.4M), a Research Associate at the UCL Center of Blockchain Technologies and has also been an Alan Turing Fellow. Evangelos has more than 5 years of research experience at ETH Zurich after having completed his PhD studies at Delft University of Technology. Evangelos has also been a visiting researcher at EPFL and has industry experience at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Evangelos has won the Augmented Democracy Prize, the 1st prize at ETH Policy Challenge as well as 5 paper awards and honors, including the listing of two of his project within UNESCO IRCAI Global Top-100 as `outstanding' and `promising'. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals and conferences. Evangelos has extensive leadership experience and raised funding for national and EU projects such as H2OforAll ASSET and SoBigData.

Dr. Stamatis Poulakidakos

Dr. Stamatis Poulakidakos is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Macedonia, where he specializes in Political Communication within the Department of Communication and Digital Media. He completed his PhD at the University of Athens in the same field, and holds an MSc in New Media, Information, and Society from the London School of Economics. Stamatis is well-regarded for his expertise in media content analysis and quantitative content analysis. He also teaches at the Metropolitan College as part of the BA program in Communication and Digital Media. His research interests focus on the structural issues within the Greek media system and its impact on information dissemination and public discourse​. Finally, Stamatis authored the book “Propaganda and public speech: the presentation of the memorandum by the Greek media”.