About Me

I am Professor (Associate) of Data Analysis in the Social Sciences at the Democritus University of Thrace, School of Education (Greece), board member of the Greek Society of Data Analysis (GSDA) and additional member of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) Council. In 2017, I was Visiting Scholar at the Department of Statistics, Stanford University. I hold a PhD degree in Applied Informatics from the University of Macedonia, Greece (2007).

My areas of interest include multivariate analysis (especially dimension reduction and clustering), psychological testing and measurement in the social sciences and statistics education. I am creator and maintainer of the R packages clustrd and idm.

More about my current research activity can be found here, as well as in my CV (in Greek and English). You can also check my (infrequent) research-related posts.