Dr. Panagiotidou Georgia

Dr Georgia Panagiotidou holds a PhD in Political Sciences with a specialization in applied political analysis. She has been teaching since 2016 at the School of Political Sciences of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as in the postgraduate program Governance and Regional Development as an academic scholar and adjunct lecturer. Additionally, she teaches as Collaborating Teaching Staff in the postgraduate program Public Administration and Electronic Governance at HOU and is a postdoctoral researcher in the Horizon Europe – AI4GOV program on artificial intelligence in governance. Since 2022 she has been teaching at the School of Psychology and the School of Business at Mediterranean College, focusing on Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Research Methods and Data Analysis. Her research interests and scientific activity focus on the analysis of political and electoral Behaviour, political culture, political marketing, party competition and the typologies of voters, candidates, parties, and issues. She specializes in the use of advanced research methodology and the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data with multivariate and comparative analysis techniques. She participates in research projects at the Laboratory of Applied Political Analysis of AUTH; she was a member of the research team for Greece’s first electronic Voting Advisor Application (VAA) in 2010 (helpmevote.gr) and participated in the COST True European Voter research project. Furthermore, she has conducted extensive empirical comparative research on political and electoral Behaviour in Greece and at a pan-European level on behalf of European Union entities. She systematically participates in international scientific conferences with presentations of her research work and has published her scientific works in scientific journals and collective volumes. She is a member of the Hellenic, American, and International Political Science Associations (HPSA, APSA, IPSA), the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), and the Greek Society for Data Analysis (GSDA). On a professional level, she has worked as a technical advisor to local government organizations for European programs and as a senior business analyst and as head of research and development at the airline ELLINAIR S.A. while during the academic year 2022-2023 she worked from the position of academic program leader of the Business School at Mediterranean College.