Research Team

Nikos Marantzidis, Professor

Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies

University of Macedonia

He is a visiting professor at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic from 2006-2012 and a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw since 2012. He holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the University of Paris X-Nanterre (1994). He is author of nine books (in Greek) on Greek Civil War and the Greek Communist Party. He has published more than 50 papers in English, French and Greek that have attracted more than 200 citations. His publications include: ‘The Communist Party of Greece after the collapse of Communism (1989-2006): From the proletarian internationalism to the ethno- nationalism’, in Backes, U. and P. Moreau (eds.), Communist and Post-Communist parties in Europe (Dresden, Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 2008); ‘Transnational Migrants Views on Multiple Citizenship in Greece’, (with H. Athanasiades and A. Mantzaridou), in P. Pitkanen and D. Kalekin-Fishman (eds.), Multiple State Membership and Citizenship in the Era of Transational Migration (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2007); ‘Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Les stratégies des parties communists ouest-européens après 1989’, Communisme, 2004, 76-77: 169-184. He has also led a 2-year research project titled ‘Holocaust as local history: past and present of a complex relation’, funded by the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.

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Iannis Konstantinidis, Assistant Professor

Department of International and European Studies

University of Macedonia

holds a Ph.D. in British Politics from the Department of Government, University of Essex, UK. He has also studied Quantitative Methods (MA) at the University of Essex and Computer Science (BSc) at the University of Macedonia, Greece. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Politics at the Department of International and European Studies, University of Macedonia, Greece. His research interests focus on voting behaviour and political parties. He is co-editor (with N.Marantzidis and T.S.Pappas) of Parties and Politics in Greece: New Developments (Kritiki, 2009 [in Greek]) and editor of the Greek edition of Tim Bale’s European Politics: A Comparative Approach originally published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008 (Kritiki, 2011) as well as the Greek edition of Rod Hague’s and Martin Harrop’s Comparative Politics and Government originally published by Palgrave in 2005 (Kritiki, 2012). Most recent journal publications appear in Party Politics, Crime, Law and Social Change, Comparative European Politics, Representation, Journal of Political Marketing, International and European Politics. He is currently the principal co-ordinator of an EU-funded, four-year research project on measuring political radicalism in Greece. He is also the Academic Coordinator of the Public Opinion Research Unit of the University of Macedonia and the founder of the Greek Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Standing Group of the Hellenic Political Association.

Konstantinos Zafiropoulos, Associate Professor

Department of International and European Studies

University of Macedonia

He holds a BA in Mathematics (1987) and a PhD in Quantitative Methods (1997) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is currently doing research on Web 2.0 applications in politics. He has published two books (in Greek) on research methods and he is co-author (with Vasiliki Vrana) of A Hyperlink Analysis of Greek Political Blogs Communication Patterns (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010). He has published more that 80 papers on peer-reviewed journals that have attracted more than 120 citations.

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Vasiliki Georgiadou, Associate Professor

Department of Political Science and History

Panteion University

She holds a PhD in Politics with distinction (summa cum laude) from the University of Münster, Germany. Her current research interests focus on political behaviour, social cleavages, right-wing parties and political extremism. She is the author (in German) of, among others, Non-capitalist Aspects of Development in Greece in the 19th Century (Frankfurt/M: Peter Lang, 1991) and (in Greek) of The Far Right and the Consequences of Consensus: Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Germany (Athens: Kastaniotis, 2008). She was a visiting research fellow in Hannah Arendt Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism (Technical University of Dresden, Spring 2012). She is currently participating as a Research Group Leader in the THALIS research program “Designing & Operating an Infrastructure for the Empirical Inquiry of Political & Social Radicalism in Greece” (EU Program) and in a project on the rise of right-wing extremism in the city of Athens. She has also participated in the research program CESSDA/So.Da.Net - European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure (EU Program). She is a member of the Editorial Board of Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory, Secretary General of the Hellenic Political Science Association (2010-2012), member of the Executive Committee of the Greek Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) and counselor for scholarships of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She has published in Greek, German, English and French 40 papers in peer-reviewed journal. Her publications appear among others in Party Politics, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Revue des Sciences Sociales, Science and Society, The Greek Journal of Political Science.

Stella Ladi, Assistant Professor

Department of Political Science and History

Panteion University

She is currently on leave at Queen Mary, University of London. She has been a lecturer of Europeanization and Public Policy at Panteion University since 2010. She previously worked as a lecturer at University of Sheffield and University of Exeter. She has also been a Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI). She has acted as a public policy expert at the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of the Aegean, Greece. In July 2002 she completed her PhD thesis at the University of York. Her research interests include the Eurozone crisis, public policy and public administration reforms, Europeanization, global governance and the role of experts in public policy. Some of her latest publications are: Tsarouhas, D. and Ladi, S. (2013), “Globalization and/or Europeanization? The Case of Flexicurity”, New Political Economy and Ladi, S. (2014) "Austerity Politics and Administrative Reform: The Eurozone Crisis and its Impact upon Greek Public Administration", Comparative European Politics, Ladi, S., and Tsarouhas, D. (2014) “The Politics of Austerity and Public Policy Reform in the EU”, Political Studies Review.

Vasiliki Vrana, Associate Professor

Department of Business Administration

Technological Education Institute of Central Macedonia

She holds a BA in Mathematics, and a PhD in Computer Science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Master in Information Systems from Hellenic Open University. She was an education consultant at the secondary education for three years. Her research interests include the study of Information Technology in tourism and hospitality industries and the study of information provided through their websites. She has published more than 70 papers in international and Greek journals and proceedings on measuring and evaluating tourism websites content, usability and interactivity which have attracted more than 340 citations. She has also published one book (in Greek) on information technology and she is co-author (with K. Zafiropoulos) of A Hyperlink Analysis of Greek Political Blogs Communication Patterns (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010). Currently, she is doing research on Web 2.0 applications, especially blogging and Twitter in tourism and politics.

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Elias Dinas, Assistant Professor

Department of Politics and International Relations

Oxford University

He is a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK. As of September 2012, he will be working as Lecturer of Politics and Research Methods at the Department of Politics and International Relations in the University of Nottingham. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (2008) and an MA in Political Behaviour from the University of Essex, UK (2003). His research interests include the dynamics of political socialization, political psychology and political methodology. Recent work has been published or is forthcoming in various journals, including the British Journal of Political Science, Political Behaviour, Electoral Studies, West European Politics, Party Politics, Acta Politica, and the European Journal of Political Research. He won the Linz Rokkan Prize for the best thesis in political sociology at the European University Institute. He has also received the John Sullivan Award for the best paper on elections, public opinion, and voting behaviour at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Recent publications include: ‘Systemic Polarization and Spatial Voting’ (with S. Pardos-Prado), European Journal of Political Research 49 (6): 759-786 (2010); ‘The Greek General Election of 2009’, West European Politics 33 (2): 389-398 (2010); ‘Measuring Parties’ Ideological Positions with Manifesto Data: A Critical Evaluation of the Competing Methods (with K. Gemenis), Party Politics 16 (4): 427-450 (2010).

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Kostas Gemenis, Assistant Professor

Department of Public Administration

University of Twente

Kostas Gemenis is Assistant Professor of Research Methods at the Department of Public Administration of the University of Twente. He studied political science at Leiden University and the University of Macedonia and obtained his PhD from Keele University. He has conducted research as a DAAD Fellow in Germany and he is a senior member of the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG). Since 2012 he has been involved in ‘Preference Matcher’ (www.preferencematcher.org), a consortium involving researchers who collaborate in developing voting advice applications and e-literacy tools designed to enhance voter education. Recent publications include: 'Government-opposition dynamics during the economic crisis in Greece' (with R. Nezi), Journal of Legislative Studies 21: 14–34 (2015); 'An iterative expert survey approach for estimating parties’ policy positions.' Quality & Quantity, doi: 10.1007/s11135-014-0109-5 (2014); 'Voting advice applications and electoral turnout' (with M. Rosema) Electoral Studies 36: 281–289 (2014).

Alexia Katsanidou, Assistant Professor

Leader of the International Data Infrastructures Team

GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

She is the director of the Data Archive at GESIS- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in Politics (2008) and an MA in Comparative Democratization (2005) from the Department of Government, University of Essex, UK. Her research interests include political behavior, quality of representation and radicalization of European societies. She has been awarded the Max Weber post-doc Fellowship in European University Institute for the year 2009-2010 as well as research grants from the British Academy and the Max Planck Society and the European Union (FP7 and H2020). Her work has been published or is forthcoming, among others, in European Union Politics, West European Politics, European Political Science, International Journal of Conflict and Violence, International Studies Perspectives.

Kostas Antoniadis, Research Fellow

University of Macedonia

He is a PhD student at the University of Macedonia. His research interest includes the study of the web 2.0 and the influence of social media. He holds degrees at management from the University of Macedonia and marketing from the Technological Institute of Thessaloniki. He has a master degree at international studies. He has published several papers on peer-reviewed journals and forums.

Paris Aslanidis, Research Fellow

Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies

University of Macedonia

He is a PhD candidate at the University of Macedonia, Greece, studying the nexus between populism and social movements during the Great Recession in a comparative perspective. He has a background in engineering and philosophy of science. He likes chess and stoner rock.

Anastasia Kafe, Research Fellow

Department of Political Science and History

Panteion University

She is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University, Greece and a Researcher at the Centre for Political Research. She holds an MA in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Athens. She is currently participating in the research program CESSDA/So.Da.Net - European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures, in the "Designing & Operating an Infrastructure for the Empirical Inquiry of Political & Social Radicalism in Greece" - THALIS project (EU Framework Program) and in the CAICG project "Collective Action of Indignant Citizens in Greece: causes, content, agency, and implications for policy makers. She has attended the 2012 GESIS Summer School on mixed methods and conducted qualitative research on the ‘Indignants’ in Greece and on the unemployed. Her research interests lie on mixed methods and especially qualitative methodology, the study of electoral behaviour of several social groups and especially the political behaviour of the unemployed, the implications of economic voting and the extreme right and radical right parties.

Lamprini Rori, Research Fellow

Marie-Curie Fellow

Bournemouth University

She has obtained her Phd in Political Science from Paris I University (Panthéon-Sorbonne) with a thesis on party organisational change by the means of political communication in the Greek and the French socialist party from the 1970s to 2012 (“Les organisations partisanes à la lumière de la professionnalisation de la communication politique: une présidentialisation inachevée. Analyse comparative du parti socialiste français et du mouvement socialiste grec.”). She holds a MA in Political Sociology and Public Policy from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris) and a MA in Political and Social Communications from Paris I University (Panthéon-Sorbonne). She studied International and European Studies at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. Since 2010 Lamprini works as a researcher in a collective project on the rise of right-wing extremism in Greece. She is also participating in the THALIS project “Designing & Operating an Infrastructure for the Empirical Inquiry of Political & Social Radicalism in Greece” (EU Framework Program) mainly conducting research on media effects and focus groups. Her post-doctoral research project is entitled “Social media and resurgent ethno- nationalism in Greece” (EU Framework Program). Lamprini is also a political communications expert, drawing her experience form both the French private sector (AgenceVerte, Paris) and the Greek government (General Secretary for Press and Mass Media, Cabinet of the Minister for Citizens Protection & the Minister for Regional Competitiveness and Development). She has published various chapters in collective editions and articles. Her publications appear among others in Party Politics, West European Politics, Pôle Sud, Memoria e Ricerca, Journal of Political Marketing, and Cahiers de la Méditerranée.

Giorgos Siakas, Research Fellow

Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies

University of Macedonia

He is a PhD candidate at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki – Greece, holding a Bachelor in Accounting and Finance and Master in International Relations. Since 2013 he participates in the THALES Research Project “Design and management of a system recording political and social radicalism in Greece” and in the research project “Methodological expansions of the data envelopment analysis and application in the evaluation of Greek universities”. He is currently scientific assistant in the Public Opinion Research Unit under the University of Macedonia Research Institute.

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