Since earning my Ph.D. in Applied Informatics from the University of Macedonia in 2007, I have been serving as a Professor of Data Analysis in Social Sciences at the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece. My research focuses on multivariate analysis, particularly dimension reduction and clustering methods, as well as psychological testing and measurement within the social sciences. I also have a keen interest in the philosophy of error statistics. Fun fact: my Erdős number is 4.
In 2017, I served as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. I participate in the international data-analysis community through the Greek Society of Data Analysis (GSDA), the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), and the Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods network (CARME-N). Within CARME-N, I collaborate closely with Alfonso Iodice D'Enza and co-organize the CARME meetings.
Beyond my academic work, I am an advocate for open science. Transparency, humility, pluralism and collaboration are, for me, essential to making progress on complex problems. If you are working on a project aligned with those principles, I am happy to offer consulting support, time permitting.