ENTRUST - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of the European Civic Forum
Kostis Papaioannou: former General Secretary for Human Rights, President of the National Committee for Human Rights, President of the National Assembly Against Racism and Intolerance;
Job Titles:
- Research Associate at the Greek Diaspora Project
Anastasia Kafe is a Research Associate at the Greek Diaspora Project - SEESOX. She has obtained her PhD in Political Science from Panteion University and holds an MA in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Athens. She has teaching experience in Electoral Sociology, Political Theory and Political Analysis. Her research experience concerns political behaviour, political radicalism and xenophobia, social movement and protest event analysis and data management for research infrastructures. She has worked as a researcher in the research programme So.Da.Net - European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures, in the project "Designing & Operating an Infrastructure for the Empirical Inquiry of Political & Social Radicalism in Greece", in the project "Collective Action of Indignant Citizens in Greece: causes, content, agency, and implications for policy maker" and in the project "Examining xenophobia in Greece during the economic crisis: A computational perspective", funded by the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism. She is co-author of the book Electoral Sociology and she has published several articles in the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, in Science and Society and in edited volumes. Her research interests lie in mixed methods, the study of electoral behaviour, the implications of economic voting, the discourse and strategy of extreme right parties, with a special focus on anti-immigrant behaviour and xenophobic attitudes and social movement studies.
Andrea Albrecht obtained her master's degree in psychology at the Department of Psychology in 2022 and is a researcher at the Psychology Research Institute at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. Her research topics focus on developmental psychology with a specific focus on interpersonal trust. Besides being a researcher, she works as a child psychologist.
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- Researcher at the Department of Psychology
Anna Masling is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology at the University of Siegen, Germany. She first studied Inclusive Education at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences, Bochum before she studied Psychology at the University of Cologne and the FernUniversität Hagen. She is interested in different topics around digital media as well as judgement and decision making, specifically the role of (para-)social influence on moral judgement and decision making. Her PhD Project investigates the influence of parasocial interaction with media characters, especially in videogames on players moral decisions.
Anne Brus holds a PhD in Humanities from Roskilde University. Currently, she is working as a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication. She has developed several programmes on the theory of science, and qualitative and quantitative methods. She has been a visiting scholar at the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, University of London, England (2011), and visiting researcher at the HEMIL-centre at Bergen University, Norway (2018). Anne is the author and co-author of nine peer reviewed articles and a writer of several reports within the field of sociology of childhood, digital literacy, health promotion, computer games from an everyday life perspective, and computer game policy. Throughout all her research, she has shown a consistent dedication toward including a child- and young people's perspectives in her field of research. At the moment, she is finishing her postdoc-project on ‘Computer game policy in Denmark and Norway', and preparing her new postdoc research on ‘children and young people's participation in e-sport in Danish sport clubs.
Anne Mette Thorhauge is the principal investigator of the Danish team. She is associate professor at Center for Tracking and Society, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests include digital media in everyday life including gaming as social interaction and source of conflict in modern families. Her current research concerns critical analyses of digital platform economies in the domain of gaming. Anne Mette Thorhauge has chaired the Danish Media council for children and young people (2013-2019) and as part of this work she has contributed to the anchoring of media policies in the UN convention of the child, emphasizing children's right to protection but also their rights as democratic citizens. She has continued this work as a board member in CFDP, center for digital pedagogics. In parallel with these activities Anne Mette Thorhauge has participated in the development of the Danish computer game industry and is currently chair of the Steering committee of DADIU - the Danish Academy of Digital Interactive Entertainment.
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- Researcher at the Department of Psychology
Anne Möbert is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology at the University of Siegen. She studied psychology at the universities of Hagen and Bielefeld in Germany. She is interested in different topics in the area of business psychology, for example personnel selection, learning and development or organizational development. The combination of theoretical and empirical studies and investigations and practical influence on the day-to-day work is especially important to her. Her research is focused on business psychology, mainly digital leadership and strategies to develop trust in work environments. She investigates the development of trust in different stages of the employment process and the factors influencing the trust building process.
Job Titles:
- Coordinator of Civil Society Europe
Carlotta Besozzi is the coordinator of Civil Society Europe. She holds a degree in philosophy at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She has worked most of her career in the civil society sector after a few years at the European Parliament as a political and research assistant for a member. Previous to being the Coordinator of Civil Society Europe she has been for a decade the Director of the European Disability Forum for which she coordinated participation in EU research projects on the full participation of disabled people's organisations as equal and active partners in future research initiatives (EURADE) and on Active Citizenship for persons with disabilities (DISCIT). She has more than twenty years' experience and knowledge of the civil society sector and of engaging citizens and civil society activists.
Dorota Szelewa works for the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at Warsaw University, Poland, also in addition to being a Lecturer in Social Justice at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College, Dublin. She completed graduate programmes in Sweden (Dalarna University College) and Hungary (Central European University, Budapest) and received her PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), where she defended a thesis on the role of public bureaucrats in shaping family policies in Hungary and Poland. Szelewa has also worked at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences and at Warsaw University. She has published her work in such journals as in Social Politics, Journal of European Social Policy, Social & Legal Studies, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research or European Journal of Social Security. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include the issues of social policy transformation in post-communist countries, gender studies, migration, theories of institutional evolution, public administration and public management, and the problems of Europeanisation.
Eleni Ntokou is a graduate of the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science. She has experience in preparing and conducting interviews for research and the quantitative and qualitative analysis of research results. Currently, she is studying Data Science at Master's level at the American College of Greece.
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- Researcher at the Greek National Centre for Social Research
Emmanouil Tsatsanis is Researcher at the Greek National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) and at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He holds a PhD from Washington State University. From 2012 to 2016 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL), where he maintains a research position. He has taught in various universities in Greece (University of Athens, University of Thessaloniki, Panteion University of Athens, University of Peloponnese), in the United States and in Morocco, and has been a visiting scholar at Sophia University in Tokyo and at the Juan March Advanced Center for Social Science Studies (CEACS) in Madrid. His research and teaching experience are located mainly in the subfield of Comparative Politics, with a focus on topics related to electoral behaviour, political identities, political representation and party systems. His work has been published in edited volumes and national and international peer-reviewed journals such as West European Politics, Party Politics, International Political Science Review, South European Society and Politics, Critical Sociology, Journal of Political Ideologies, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, among others. He coordinates together with André Freire and Marco Lisi the research project ‘Crisis, Political Representation and Democratic Renewal: The Portuguese case in the Southern European context' (2016-19) funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Research and Technology (FCT) and is co-editor of the forthcoming volumes Political Representation in Southern Europe and Latin America (Routledge) and Political Representation and Citizenship in Portugal: From Crisis to Renewal
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- Assistant Professor of Political Science - Political Communication at the Department of Political Science
Fani Kountouri is an Assistant Professor of Political Science-Political Communication at the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University, Greece. She holds a PhD in Political Science (with distinction) from the University of Paris I Sorbonne (2006). The past years she was a research fellow at the National Centre of Social Research and she has been involved in projects on the political agenda, the profile of Greek MPs, the implication of digital uses and the framing process of public problems. Based on her research activities she has published two books and several articles in peer reviewed journals and she has participated in international conferences. She is author (in Greek) of two books Political Publicity and Power: Political Parties and Media during 2000's (Athens: G. Dardanos, 2011) and Public Problems on Political Agenda (e-book, Kallipos, 2015). where she participated in several researches. She has published in Greek, French and English in edited volumes and journals such as Legislative Studies, Journal of Contemporary European Research, the Greek Journal of Political Science, the Greek review of Social Research. Her current research focus on political elites, political communication, framing process, new media and political mobilization. Since 2013 she is member of the teaching staff of the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University, Greece. There she teaches courses on political science, political communication, public problems, public policies, and methods in political science.
Florian Bieber: Professor in South East European History and Politics and director of the Centre for South East European Studies at the University of Graz; visiting Professor at the Nationalism Studies Programme at Central European University and coordinator of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group;
Francesco Marangoni is the principal investigator of the Italian team. He is associate professor in political science at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena where he teaches Public Policy Analysis, Political Communication, and Social Science Methods. He has received his PhD in "Political Science, Comparative and European Politics" from the University of Siena. He is affiliated to the Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP) at the University of Siena. His main research interests focus on political elite, political institutions and European integration. He has more recently participated in the H2020 project EUENGAGE: Bridging the gap between public opinion and European leadership, involving the organisation of an online deliberative forum to study the micro-foundational mechanisms of representation and an elite survey administered to parliamentarians of ten EU member states.
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- Professor of Sociology of Culture
Hans-Jörg Trenz is professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa/Florence), research professor at ARENA, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo and guest researcher at the University of Copenhagen. Until 2021, he was professor in Modern European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. He received his PhD from the European University Institute Florence and obtained his habilitation from the Humboldt University Berlin. His research focuses on European public sphere, European civil society, citizenship and democracy and transnational mobilization and protest. In recent projects, he deals with the challenges to European socio-political space examining both societal responses to the global crisis and changing citizens' allegiances and loyalties in light of the macroeconomic and politico-legal shift. As part of a Horizon project on EU differentiated integration, dominance and democracy (EU3D). Trenz also coordinates a cross-country comparison of public perceptions and experiences of EU differentiated integration of key actors (citizens, media, parliaments, sub-national levels) and how they shape conditions for EU reforms.
Job Titles:
- Principal Investigator of the Serbian
Irena Fiket is the principal investigator of the Serbian team. She received her PhD at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, University of Rome. Her research topics that she worked on whilst at Universities of Florence, Siena, Bologna and Oslo as a postdoc, include citizen participation, social movements, democratic innovation, deliberative democracy, European identity, Western Balkans and gender equality. On those topics she published more than 20 peer reviewed papers or chapters, two books and held more than 30 presentations, seminars or public lectures. She is one of the founders and a member of the Standing Group on democratic innovation at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet Network "Active Citizenship: Promoting and Advancing Innovative Democratic Practices in The Western Balkans".
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- Researcher at the Department of Psychology
Jakub Brojáč is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology and a specialist at the Institute for Research of Children, Youth and Family at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. He received Master's degree in psychology in 2021 (Masaryk University). He cooperated on several projects of validation of self-report measures at the Institute for Research of Children, Youth and Family and has been part of the Interdisciplinary Research Team on Internet and Society. His primary research interests are political psychology, social psychology, collective decision-making, identity and minorities. His PhD project focuses on the procedural theory of collective decision-making legitimacy.
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- Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology and at
Jan Šerek, PhD, is an associate professor at the Department of Psychology and at the Institute for Research of Children, Youth and Family at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology. His research interests involve political and civic socialization of young people and psychological aspects of democracy. He regularly teaches courses on social psychology, political psychology, and philosophical foundations of psychology at Masaryk University.
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- Student at the Department of Psychology
Jana Fikrlová is a PhD student at the Department of Psychology and a specialist at the Institute for Research of Children, Youth and Family at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. She obtained her master's degree in psychology at Masaryk University in 2021. She has participated in several research projects utilizing both qualitative and quantitative analyses. Her research interests focus on trust in institutions, trust in professionals and attitudes toward students with special educational needs.
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- Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social
Jelena Vasiljević is a Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Holding a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology, her background is in political anthropology and citizenship studies. She has written on transformations of citizenship in the post-Yugoslav states, culture and rights debates in Southeast European context, memory politics, narratives and identity politics during the Yugoslav wars of 1990s. Her current research interests lie in politics of solidarity, activist citizenship and social movements in the Balkans. She was a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, working on an ERC funded project on citizenship transformations in the former Yugoslav states (CITSEE) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for South East European Studies, University of Graz. She published a monograph The Anthropology of Citizenship (in Serbian, 2016), and her articles appeared in Nations and Nationalism and Citizenship Studies, among other journals.
Jelena Ćeriman (PhD in Sociology) is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. Her research work focuses on comparative interdisciplinary studies on family practices, education and social support to citizens in southern European countries. She is also interested on how gender interacts in conceptual and literal terms with other categories such as ethnicity, sexuality and social background. From 2014 until 2016 she developed and coordinated regional research study that was focused on the issues of rural population in access to social services, with special emphasis on the members of marginalized groups, women and girls, as well as on the opportunities for improvement of the availability and quality of social services and thereby of the overall quality of life in the villages in Serbia and Kosovo*. Her current research interests lie in the civil society studies and protest movements in the European semi-periphery (she is a Project Coordinator for Serbia on the project Disobedient Democracy 2016-2021). She has a strong collaboration with the international scientific community through project activities, regarding the links between theory and practice in the above mentioned research areas.
Jenny Mavropoulou is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Her research focuses on the vote for anti-establishment parties in the European elections and the North-South divide. She was affiliated with the Department of Political Science at the University of Mainz as a Visiting Research Fellow having been awarded a DAAD scholarship (Research Grant - 2019/2020). She has received two teaching assistant scholarships during the spring semesters of the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years. She holds an MA in Political Science with distinction from the University of Essex and a BA in Political Science and History from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. She was a researcher in the ‘SoDaNet In Action' research project - Funding: Operational Programme ‘Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation'. Since 2018, she has been the technical responsible of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences at the Clarin:el, National Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technologies in Greece. Her main research interests lie in Comparative European Politics, Western Far-Right Politics, Anti-establishment Parties, Electoral Behaviour and Methods in Social Sciences. She has published articles in peer reviewed journals (Greek and International), while in 2018 her working paper entitled ‘Mapping the far-right vote in the European electoral arena: The Greek far-right in cross-national perspective' received the first award by the Greek Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) under the call for Paper Competition: Greece: From Economic Rescue to Recovery and Reform?
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- Research Member at the Department of Social Sciences
Johannes Kiess is a post-doctoral research member at the Department of Social Sciences at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Siegen and Deputy director of the Else-Frenkel-Brunswik-Institute for Democracy Research at University of Leipzig. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Siegen and an M.A. from the University of Leipzig where he studied political science, sociology and philosophy. He also studied Middle Eastern Studies at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in BeerSheva, Israel. His research interests include European integration and European societies, interest group research and industrial relations, as well as right-wing extremism, political participation and societal (dis)integration. His PhD project investigated the strategic framing of the financial and Euro crisis by trade unions and business associations. Since 2010, he has been part of a research group at the University of Leipzig surveying right-wing extremism in Germany (2002-2016). He previously was a researcher in the EU-funded projects LIVEWHAT (FP 7), TransSOL (H2020) and EURYKA (H2020). In addition, Johannes was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, and at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. He has published numerous articles and book chapters in both German and English.
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- President
- President of the National Committee
Lenka Štěpánková, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University and a research assistant at the Institute for Research of Children, Youth and Family, Masaryk University. She obtained her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in 2019 for the work on testing and examining spatial cognitive ability. Her other research projects focus on effects of culture on autobiographical memory, she is currently working on life script research in Czech Republic and Slovakia and on project examining how historical events influence autobiographical memories. She also teaches several courses at undergraduate level at Masaryk University, mostly focused on cognitive psychology.
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- Sociology and Director of the Centre for Research and Studies at the University of Crete
Maria Kousis: Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Research and Studies at the University of Crete;
Maria Samara has studied International and European Economics and holds an MBA, from the Athens University of Economics and Business. She has more than 10 years in the management of EU funded projects, including dissemination and exploitation of project results. She has participated and organized several trainings, workshops and conferences, in the field of social sciences and the humanities. She has participated in surveys conducted by the National Hellenic Research Foundation, and in publications related to the gender equality in research, while she was employed there.
Maria Theiss is the principal investigator of the Polish team. She is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at Warsaw University where she has obtained her PhD and habilitation. Her research focuses on the issues of social citizenship, social capital, civic society and the local level of social policy. She was the principal investigator of the Polish team for the projects ‘Transnational Solidarity at times of Crisis' (TransSOL, H2020) and ‘Living with Hard Times: How Citizens React to Economic Crises and Their Social and Political Consequences' (LIVEWHAT, 7 th FP). Maria also conducted an additional number of research studies in Poland, including: ‘Local social citizenship - the example of childcare services', funded by the National Research Centre, ‘Differences in local social policy in Poland - the local dimension of social citizenship', as well as several evaluation programmes of local social policies. She is an author and co-editor of 5 books on issues of poverty, social exclusion and governance processes at the local level in Poland, as well as articles and book chapters.
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- Chairman of Practical Philosophy at the University of Lucerne
Martin Hartmann: Professor of Philosophy, Chair for Practical Philosophy at the University of Lucerne; fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey;
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- Professor of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade
Nikos Klironomos is a graduate of the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences with a distinction and is currently continuing his studies at the postgraduate level in the same department in "Political Sociology and Comparative Political Analysis". In the past, he has also studied Informatics at the Department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business. In parallel with his studies he retains his personal involvement with Big Data Analysis and Social Data Science. He is currently working as a scientific collaborator of the National Center for Social Research (EKKE) and Panteion University as the administrator of the database of the Social Data Network (SoDaNet) within the project "SoDaNet in Action". He has previously worked in the "Socioscope" database developed by the National Center for Social Research and has participated in various surveys conducted by the National Center for Social Research while he was employed there, either as research personnel or as a data administrator. His research interests include fields such as Political and Electoral Sociology, Political Elites but also Political Communication on issues that mainly concern the study of Social Media Networks, while he puts a lot of emphasis on the field of Research Methodology and especially on the modern methods of Big Data Analysis, as it is a rapidly growing field that is of great interest especially in combination with the methods of social and political sciences.
Petr Macek is the principal investigator of the Czech team. He is professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Psychology and head of the Institute for Research on Children, Youth and Family at Masaryk University. He has received a PhD (CSc. as former Czechoslovak equivalent) from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and University J. E. Purkyne Brno in the year 1987. His research topics are focused on identity, self, interpersonal relationships, and civic and political participation.
Christian Lahusen is the principal investigator of the German team and coordinator of the EnTrust project. He is professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences at the Faculty of Arts at Siegen University. He studied sociology in Düsseldorf and Madrid, received his PhD from the European University Institute (Florence) and obtained his habilitation from the University of Bamberg. His research interests include the sociology of European societies and European integration, social movements and civil societies, social problems and social exclusion, the sociology of bureaucracy and of the transformation of the state. He has directed and participated in a number of national and international research projects on topics relating to contentious politics, civil society and social exclusion, most of them with a European and comparative perspective. His research has been funded by the German Research Council, the EU and other national and international funding agencies. He was coordinator and investigator of the EU-funded project TransSOL (H2020) and a participant in other EU-funded projects such as UNEMPOL (EU FP5), YOUNEX (EU FP7), LIVEWHAT (EU FP7) and EURYKA (H2020). Publications include more than 20 books, edited collections, more than 70 articles, and book chapters, published by leading national and international publishers and journals.
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- Senior - Professor for Educational Psychology at the Institute for Psychology
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- Senior Policy Officer of the European Youth Forum
Sabrina-Maria Anderson is a student on the M.A. Roads to Democracies programme at the University of Siegen - an international and interdisciplinary course run by the Department of History and the Department of Social Sciences. She has also studied at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and holds a Law degree from Cardiff University, UK, where she studied Law and Sociology. Her research interests include contemporary political theory, particularly concerning questions of difference and diversity, race, gender, structural injustice and political violence. She has edited a book on the German Energiewende and as a freelance journalist, writes feature articles about race, politics and health.
Sebastian Sosnowski works for the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at Warsaw University (UW). He has graduated from College of Inter-Area Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Science of UW. He has taken part in international projects with University of Northampton (Changemaker Exchange) and University of Lisbon (Service Learning at UW). Currently, he is studying Digital Sociology at Masters' level at the Institute of Sociology of UW. His research interests are focused on new technologies in public policies and services, e-governance.
Simon Forstmeier is professor of developmental psychology and clinical psychology of the lifespan at the University of Siegen, Germany. He started his career as clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in a psychosomatic hospital, before he focused on research on clinical gerontopsychology, psychotherapy with the elderly, and lifespan psychology. Two main research topics go through many of his studies: self-regulation and motivation across the lifespan from childhood to old age and as predictor of cognitive and affective health; and reminiscence interventions in the treatment of older people with depression, beginning dementia, or posttraumatic stress disorder. He received 2008 the Vontobel prize for aging research and 2012 the Margret and Paul Baltes prize for gerontological research.
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- Research Member at the Department of Social Sciences
Vasiliki Georgiadou is the principal investigator of the Greek team. She is a Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University, and the Director of the Centre for Political Research. She holds a PhD in Politics with distinction (summa cum laude) from the University of Münster, Germany (1989). Her current research interests focus on political behaviour, political radicalism and violent extremism. She is 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) and The Far Right in Greece, 1965-2018 (Athens: Kastaniotis 2019). She was the Principal Investigator in the EEA Grant "Examining Xenophobia in Greece during the Economic Crisis" and a Research Group Leader in the THALIS research programme "Designing & Operating an Infrastructure for the Empirical Inquiry of Political & Social Radicalism in Greece" (EU Programme). Currently she is a co-Investigator in the LSE Research Grant "Low intensity violence in crisis-ridden Greece: Evidence from the radical right and the radical left" and co-coordinator of the SO.DA.NET. infrastructure. 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 Political Studies Association and the International Political Science Association and counsellor for scholarships of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She has published 45 papers in peer-reviewed journals in Greek, German, English and French. Her publications appear among others in Electoral Studies, 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.
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- Founder and Director of the Centre for Research
Vukosava Crnjanski: Founder and director of the Centre for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA; recipient of the OSCE Democracy Defender Award 2018); trainer and consultant for international foundations and NGOs such as OSCE, USAID/Institute for Sustainable Communities, Westminster Foundation for Democracy;
Wojciech Gędek is a Master's student at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw. He holds a Licencjat (Bachelor degree) in Social Policy. In the course of his studies he participated in various research activities - including an evaluation of a special-needs education project in Skierniewice (Poland). His research interests focus on evidence-based policy and the wider role of knowledge in the public policy process.
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- Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology
Zoran Pavlović is a social psychologist and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Zoran obtained his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Belgrade. His main scientific interests include the study of political behaviour, political socialisation and human values. He has participated in numerous national and international projects and qualitative and quantitative surveys on youth political activism, political attitudes, value orientations and violence in the school context, including the Manifesto Research on Political Representation (MARPOR) coordinated by the WZB Berlin and FES Youth Studies 2018.