University of Peloponnese

Sokratis Koniordos (BA Deree & Panteion, MA Kent, PhD LSE/London) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Dept. of Political Science and International Affairs, University of the Peloponnese, and Principal Investigator of WVS for Greece. Previously he was Professor of Sociology at the University of the Peloponnese (2018-2022) and at the University of Crete (1997-2018). For short spells has been Visiting Professor or Researcher at the University of Middlesex, UK (2016), the University of Paris Ouest, Nanterre-La Défence (2014), the University of Cyprus (2009-2010) and the University of Milan-Bicocca (2005). He has authored or edited 22 volumes and several research articles. His more recent research activities relate to the “Visualizing, Analyzing and Learning about EU Studies (Visu.A.L.EU)”, Programme Erasmus+, Action CoE - Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. Currently he is Principal Investigator of “The Paradoxes and Mixed Record of Culture Wars in Contemporary Greece” project at LSE Hellenic Observatory and ELIAMEP. He is participating in the “Values in Crisis”, 2 waves (in Greece), EKKE.  He has been the Principal Investigator of “The Making of the Modern Greek Diaspora: Collaborative Research, Graduate Teaching/Mentoring and Curriculum Co-Development” programme, Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program (GDFP), Institute of International Education (IIE), Washington, DC, USA. He has also acted as Expert Researcher In the “Social Integration of Young People not in Education, Atraining and employment – Neets” project, EEA Grants (administered by the General Secretariat of Research, KANEP/GSEE & University of Crete, and he has been the Principal researcher of the “Outward Migration from Greece during the Crisis: The educated middle class on the move” research programme at the Universities of Crete and Peloponnese.

Kostas Kanellopoulos is a political scientist currently working as a Researcher at the Institute of Political Research, National Centre for Social Research, Greece. He has taught at the University of Athens, the University of Crete, the University of Peloponnese, the Democritus University of Thrace, at the Hellenic Open University and at the Technological Educational Institutes of Patras and Piraeus. He has worked on bilateral and European research programs (www.ggcrisi.org , www.transsol.eu, http://europolity.soc.uoc.gr ) on the analysis of protest events and political claims in the Eurozone crisis, discourse analysis, civil society, radical trade unionism and the emergence of contemporary transnational solidarity. His work has been published in several scientific journals and collective volumes in Greece and abroad. He has been elected and served three times as Secretary General of the Hellenic Political Science Association (2016-2018, 2018-2020 & 2020-today).

Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), senior researcher at the ELIAMEP foundation (Athens) and research associate of the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  He has taught at the University of Crete, the Instituto Juan March (Madrid) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University). He has been research fellow at the Hellenic Observatory of the LSE (2003), the Centre for European Studies, St. Antony’s College, Oxford (2009-2010), the “Sciences Po”, Paris (autumn 2016), the Center for European Studies of Harvard University (2018-2019) and the Hellenic Studies Center of Princeton University (summer 2019). His publications are on contemporary Greek, South European and Balkan politics, focusing on democracy and democratization, public administration, civil society, and the welfare state. On these topics, he has published 6 monographs, co-authored 4 books and edited or co-edited 10 volumes in Greek and English. He has published numerous articles in international journals.

Aggeliki Yfanti holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Social Policy at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. She served as Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology in 2019-2021. Since 2020, she has been working as a data analyst for the department of Statistics and Analysis at the Greek Public Employment Service. In 2017, she was national scientific consultant of the International Labour Organization (ILO) for supporting a new generation of Public Works Schemes (Kinofelis) in Greece. She has extensive experience as a researcher in many European, national and co-funded research programmes at the Centre of Gender Studies of the Department of Social Policy, the National Center for Social Research (EKKE), the University Research Institute of Mental Health and several NGOs. In 2020, she was awarded with the Young Researcher Award from the Research Network 21 “Quantitative Methods” of the European Sociological Association. Her publications and research interests focus on issues of methodology and techniques in social quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research, social surveys’ cross-national and overtime comparability, background variables and classifications.

Nicolas Demertzis is Professor at the Department of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and has taught various undergraduate and graduate courses in social and political science. He has published, edited, and co-edited 30 books and 110 articles and chapters in Greek and English scientific journals and collective volumes. His current academic and research interests include political sociology, cultural sociology, political communication, and the sociology of emotions. Nicolas Demertzis has been the leader, principal investigator and member of research groups in numerous national and international research projects. He is an expert on the Greek political culture, and has published on the emotional underpinnings of populism as well as on the mediatization of democratic politics.