Education

2020: PhD Informatics Engineering (specialty: Human-Computer Interaction)

Department of Mathematics and Engineering, University of Madeira, Portugal.
Thesis title: "Studying Social Network Sites with the Combination of Traditional Social Science and Computational Approaches".
Supervisor: Ian Oakley, Co-supervisor: Pedro Campos.

2007: MSc Advanced Information Systems

Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece.
Thesis title: “A Methodological Framework for the Development of Usable Computer Systems”.

2000: BSc Computer Science

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK.
Final year project: “Design and Implementation of a Guitar Composition Editor”.

Work Experience

01/2023 to present: Research Fellow

School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK.
Participation in the following research projects:
"AGENCY: Assuring Citizen Agency in a World with Complex Online Harms". (EPSRC). Researcher.
"SMOOTH: Smoothing the Digital Identity Onboarding Process" (EPSRC/SPRITE+). Principal Investigator.
"Tabular Data Under Inference Attacks: An Online Survey on the Public Perception of Privacy" (Paul & Yuanbi Ramsay Research Fund). Principal Investigator.

10/2021 to present: Innovation Fellow

Centre for Digital Citizens, UK.
Conducting research in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Social Innovation.

11/2020 to 07/2022: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Newcastle University Business School & School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK.
Participation in the following research projects:
"FinTrust: Trust Engineering for the Financial Industry” (EPSRC). Research Associate.
"FinClusion: Verifiable Credentials for Financial Inclusion" (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). Research Associate.
"Demystifying Decentralised Finance" (NUBS Research Fund). Principal Investigator.
"Development of a Sentiment Dictionary of Slang and Jargon Terms for Decentralised Finance" (The Alan Turing Institute). Principal Investigator.

11/2019 to 04/2020: Research Assistant

School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
Member of the Human Factors Excellence (HuFEx) Research Group. Participation in the CREST-funded research project "Understanding the Role of Individual Differences in the Adoption, Use and Exploitation of Smart Home Technology”.

10/2013 to 10/2019: Invited Lecturer and Visiting Researcher

Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
Teaching and conducting research in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and Information Systems.

01/2015 to 03/2015: Research Associate

National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece.
Participation in the EU-funded research project STIMULATE “Stimulating the Public Attitude Towards Advanced Materials” (FP7-NMP).

03/2010 to 09/2014: FCT Fellow

Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Portugal.
Project title: “Usability Evaluation Techniques for Situated Privacy”.

06/2011 to 08/2011: Visiting Researcher

KAIST, South Korea.
Visiting researcher at the Human-Robot Interaction Research Center.

09/2009 to 10/2010: Graduate Research Assistant

Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Portugal.
Participation in the research project WeSP “Web Security and Privacy: Weaving together technology innovation with human and policy considerations” (CMUPortugal).

06/2007 to 08/2009: System Administrator

Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece.
Member of a small team, whose responsibilities included:
  • Administering the computer server infrastructure (web, mail, LDAP, DNS, file servers) and the computer laboratory of the department.
  • User support.

11/2000 to 11/2008: Research Associate

Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece.
Participation in numerous EU and National research projects and research project proposals. Responsibilities ranged from requirements analysis, design and implementation of computer systems, and project management, with a particular focus on user-centered design, evaluation, and web accessibility.

02/2008 to 07/2008: Research Associate

SingularLogic SA, Greece.
Participation in the EU-funded R&D project EURIDICE “EURopean Inter-Disciplinary research on Intelligent Cargo for Efficient, safe and environment-friendly logistics” (FP7-ICT).

05/2005 to 05/2006: Telecommunications Specialist

Hellenic Armed Forces.
Mandatory military service in the Telecommunications Division.

Teaching

Invited Lecturer:

Fall 2019: Information Systems Design and Development Methods. Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
Fall 2018: Information Systems Design and Development Methods. Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
Fall 2017: Information Systems Design and Development Methods. Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
Fall 2016: Information Systems Design and Development Methods. Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
Fall 2015: Information Systems Design and Development Methods and Tools. Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
Fall 2014: Application Development, Software Engineering and Information Systems Development Methods. Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
Fall 2013: Application Development, Software Engineering and Information Systems Development Methods. Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.

Teaching Assistant:

Fall 2009: Social Web. University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal.

Student Supervision:

3 postgraduate student dissertations, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK. 2023. Primary supervisor.
5 undergraduate student dissertations. School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK. 2022. Primary supervisor.
1 MSc dissertation, Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Athens, Greece. 2015. Co-supervisor.
1 MSc dissertation, Department of Mathematics and Engineering, University of Madeira, Portugal. 2013. Co-supervisor.

Other:

2008: Seminar on Access of Disabled People to eGovernment Services. Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Greece.

Awards and Distinctions

2023. Sandpit participant. Third Annual SPRITE+ Sandpit on Future Digital Identity.

2021. Summer institute participant. Summer Institute in Computational Social Science in Oxford (SICSS-Oxford).

2020. Research award finalist. Grant proposal selected as a finalist for the Privacy Preserving Technologies RFP by Facebook Research.

2017. Reviewer special recognition. 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017).

2017. Reviewer special recognition. 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017).

2015. Reviewer special recognition. 18th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2015).

2014. Best paper award. 18th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2014).

2013. RepliCHI award. 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013).

2010. Best short paper nominee. 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2010).

Research Funding Received

2023. Research grant. Principal Investigator (with Robert Dover) for the project “Rapid Evidence Review on Trustworthy Digital Identities”. SPRITE+2/The Alan Turing Institute.

2023. Research grant. Principal Investigator for the project “SMOOTH: Smoothing the Digital Identity Onboarding Process”. SPRITE+/EPSRC.

2023. Research grant. Principal Investigator (with Han Wu) for the project “Tabular Data Under Inference Attacks: An Online Survey on the Public Perception of Privacy”. University of Birmingham Paul & Yuanbi Ramsay Research Fund.

2022. Post-Doctoral Enrichment Award. "Development of a sentiment dictionary of slang and jargon terms for decentralised finance". The Alan Turing Institute.

2021. Personal research grant. "Demystifying Decentralised Finance". Newcastle University Business School Research Fund.

2016. Trainee grant. “Enhancements: Mediated Urban Landscapes” international training school - Cost Action TU1306.

2016. Travel/accommodation support. GESIS Computational Social Sciences networking workshop.

2010 - 14. PhD fellowship. Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - FCT), Portugal.

2011. Accommodation/participation support. 12th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2011).

2009. Research assistantship. Madeira Science and Technology Center (CITMA), Portugal.

Academic Service

Editorships:

Co-editor: Spiliotopoulos T., Papadopoulou P., Martakos D., & Kouroupetroglou G. (Eds) (2010). Integrating Usability Engineering for Designing the Web Experience: Methodologies and Principles. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. ISBN 978-1-60566-896-3.

Guest co-editor: Spiliotopoulos T., Papadopoulou P., & Martakos D. (Guest Eds) (2010). International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering: Special Issue on Integrating Usability in the Web Development Process, Vol. 4, No. 4. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board: G. Kouroupetroglou (Ed) (2013): Disability Informatics and Web Accessibility for Motor Limitations, IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania (USA). ISBN13: 978-1466644427.

Reviewing and Program Committee membership:

Reviewer for the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking journal (2024).
Reviewer for the International Journal of Ethics and Systems (2024).
Reviewer at ACM CHI 2024 (Papers track).
Reviewer for the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking journal (2023).
Reviewer for the IET Information Security journal (2023).
Program Committee member at ACM CIKM 2023.
Reviewer for the Behaviour and Information Technology journal (2023).
Reviewer for the Cogent Business & Management journal (2023).
Reviewer at ACM CHI 2023 (Papers track).
Reviewer for the Current Psychology journal (2023).
Reviewer for the Social Media + Society journal (2022).
Reviewer for the Behaviour and Information Technology journal (2022) x2.
Reviewer for the Current Psychology journal (2022) x2.
Reviewer at ACM CHI 2022 (Papers track).
Reviewer for the Technology in Society journal (2021).
Reviewer for the Current Psychology journal (2021) x2.
Reviewer for Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace (2021).
Reviewer for the PeerJ Computer Science journal (2021).
Reviewer for the Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology journal (2020).
Reviewer for the Technology in Society journal (2020).
Reviewer for the Educational Research Review journal (2020).
Reviewer for the Journal of Systems and Information Technology (2019).
Reviewer for the Educational Research Review journal (2019).
Reviewer for the Interacting with Computers journal (2019).
Reviewer for the Social Media + Society journal (2019).
Reviewer at ACM CSCW 2018 (Papers track).
Reviewer for the Interacting with Computers journal (2017).
Reviewer at ACM CHI 2017 (Papers & Notes track). *special recognition received
Reviewer at ACM CSCW 2017 (Papers track). *special recognition received
Reviewer for the Interacting with Computers journal (2016).
Reviewer at ACM CHI 2016 (Papers & Notes track, Late-Breaking Work track).
Reviewer at ACM CSCW 2016 (Papers track, Interactive Posters track).
Reviewer for the Elsevier Social Science journal (2015).
Reviewer at ACM CHI 2015 (Papers & Notes track, WiP track).
Reviewer at ACM CSCW 2015 (Papers track). *special recognition received
Reviewer at ACM CHI 2014 (Papers & Notes track).
Reviewer at ACM CHI 2013 (WiP track).

Organization and Volunteering:

Student volunteer at ECSCW 2011.

Publications

Spiliotopoulos, T., Sheik, A. T., Gottardello, D., & Dover, R.M. (2023). Onboarding Citizens to Digital Identity Systems. In proceedings of the International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy, CADE 2023, Venice, Italy.

Zilius, K., Spiliotopoulos, T., & van Moorsel, A. (2023). A Dataset of Coordinated Cryptocurrency-Related Social Media Campaigns. In proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2023, Limassol, Cyprus.

Olabode, S., Owens, R., Zhang, V. N., Copilah-Ali, J., Kolomeets, M., Wu, H., Malviya, S., Markeviciute, K., Spiliotopoulos, T., Neesham, C., Shi, L., & Chambers, D. (2023). Complex Online Harms and the Smart Home: A Scoping Review. Future Generation Computer Systems, 149, 664-678.

Morgan, P., Collins, E., Spiliotopoulos, T., Greeno, D., & Jones, D. (2022). Reducing Risk to Security and Privacy in the Selection of Trigger-Action Rules: Implicit vs. Explicit Priming for Domestic Smart Devices. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 168, 102902.

Elliott, K., Coopamootoo, K., Curran, E., Ezhilchelvan, P., Finnigan, S., Horsfall, D., Ma, Z., Ng, M., Spiliotopoulos, T., Wu, H., & van Moorsel, A. (2022). Know Your Customer: Balancing Innovation and Regulation for Financial Inclusion. Data & Policy, 4, E34.

Spiliotopoulos, T., & Oakley, I. (2021). Altruistic and Selfish Communication on Social Media: The Moderating Effects of Tie Strength and Interpersonal Trust. Behaviour & Information Technology, 40(3), 320-336.

Elliott, K., Price, R., Shaw, P., Spiliotopoulos, T., Ng, M., Coopamootoo, K., & van Moorsel, A. (2021). Towards an Equitable Digital Society: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR). Springer Society, 58, 179–188.

Spiliotopoulos, T., Horsfall, D., Ng, M., Coopamootoo, K., van Moorsel, A., & Elliott, K. (2021). Identifying and Supporting Financially Vulnerable Consumers in a Privacy-Preserving Manner: A Use Case Using Decentralised Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials. In Designing for New Forms of Vulnerability workshop at CHI 2021, Online (originally Yokohama, Japan).

Ng, M., Coopamootoo, K., Spiliotopoulos, T., Horsfall, D., Aitken, M., Toreini, E., Elliott, K., & van Moorsel, A. (2021). In (Private, Secure & Conversational) FinBots We Trust. In Let's Talk about CUIs: Putting Conversational User Interface Design Into Practice workshop at CHI 2021, Online (originally Yokohama, Japan).

Spiliotopoulos, T., & Oakley, I. (2020). An Exploration of Motives and Behavior across Facebook and Twitter. Journal of Systems and Information Technology, 22(2), 201-222.

Spiliotopoulos, T., & Oakley, I. (2016). Post or Tweet: Lessons from a Study of Facebook and Twitter Usage. In Following user pathways: Using cross platform and mixed methods analysis in social media studies workshop at ACM CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, USA.

Spiliotopoulos, T. (2015). Studying Social Network Sites via Computational Methods. In proceedings of IEEE RCIS 2015, Athens, Greece. *doctoral consortium paper

Spiliotopoulos, T., & Oakley, I. (2015). An Exploratory Study on the Use of Twitter and Facebook in Tandem. In proceedings of British HCI 2015 Works-in-Progress, Lincoln, UK.

Spiliotopoulos, T., Pereira, D., & Oakley, I. (2014). Predicting Tie Strength with the Facebook API. In proceedings of PCI 2014, Athens, Greece. *best paper award

Spiliotopoulos, T., & Oakley, I. (2013). Understanding Motivations for Facebook Use: Usage Metrics, Network Structure, and Privacy. In proceedings of ACM CHI 2013, Paris, France. *RepliCHI award

Karnik, M., Oakley, I., Venkatanathan, J., Spiliotopoulos, T., & Nisi, V. (2013). Uses & Gratifications of a Facebook Media Sharing Group. In proceedings of ACM CSCW 2013, San Antonio, Texas.

Spiliotopoulos, T., & Oakley, I. (2013). Replicating and Extending a Facebook Uses & Gratifications Study: Five Years Later. In proceedings of RepliCHI 2013 workshop at ACM CHI 2013, Paris, France.

Spiliotopoulos T., Karnik M., Oakley I., Venkatanathan J, & Nisi V. (2013). Towards Understanding Social Media: Two Studies Exploring the Uses and Gratifications of Facebook. In Proceedings of HCI Korea 2013, Gangwon, South Korea.

Spiliotopoulos, T., & Oakley, I. (2013). Urban Twitter Networks and Communities: A Case Study of Microblogging in Athens. In proceedings of Hybrid City Conference 2013, Athens, Greece.

Spiliotopoulos, T., & Oakley, I. (2012). Applications of Social Network Analysis for User Modeling. In International Workshop on User Modeling from Social Media at ACM IUI 2012, Lisbon, Portugal.

Spiliotopoulos, T., & Oakley, I. (2011). An Integrated Approach Towards the Construction of an HCI Methodological Framework. In Proceedings of the 1st European Workshop on HCI Design and Evaluation, Limassol, Cyprus.

Wagner D., Lopez M., Doria A., Pavlyshak I., Kostakos V., Oakley I., & Spiliotopoulos T. (2010). Hide and Seek: Location Sharing Practices with Social Media. In Proceedings of ACM MobileHCI 2010, Lisbon, Portugal. *best short paper nominee

Spiliotopoulos T., Papadopoulou P., & Martakos D. (Guest Eds) (2010). International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering: Special Issue on Integrating Usability in the Web Development Process, Vol. 4, No. 4. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.

Spiliotopoulos T., Papadopoulou P., Martakos D., & Kouroupetroglou G. (Eds) (2010). Integrating Usability Engineering for Designing the Web Experience: Methodologies and Principles. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. ISBN 978-1-60566-896-3.

Spiliotopoulos T., Papadopoulou P., & Martakos, D. (2008). Spatial-Aware Mobile Systems: Exploring Usability Evaluation Issues. In Proceedings of EUTIC 2008, Lisbon, Portugal.

Vassiliou Ch., Stamoulis D., Spiliotopoulos A., & Martakos D. (2002). Creating Adaptive Web Sites Using Personalization Techniques: A Unified, Integrated Approach and the Role of Evaluation. In Patel N. (Ed.), Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.

Theses

Spiliotopoulos, A. (2020). Studying Social Network Sites with the Combination of Traditional Social Science and Computational Approaches. PhD thesis, University of Madeira.

Spiliotopoulos, A.
(2007). A Methodological Framework for the Development of Usable Computer Systems. MSc thesis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Spiliotopoulos, A. (2000). Design and Implementation of a Guitar Composition Editor. BSc thesis, University of Leicester.

Reports and Working Papers

Owens, R., Copilah-Ali, J., Kolomeets, M., Malviya, S., Markeviciute, K., Olabode, S., Spiliotopoulos, T., Wu, H., Zhang, V. N., Coopamootoo, K., Durrant, A., Elliott, K., Katsigiannis, S., Neesham, C., Shi, L., & Farrand, B. (2023). Reimagining AI Governance: a Response by AGENCY to the UK Government's White Paper AI Regulation.

Williams, E., Slade, E., Hodges, D., Morgan, P., Jones, D., Macken, B., Collins, E., & Spiliotopoulos, T. (2021). Individual Differences in the Adoption, Secure Use, and Exploitation of Smart Home Technology. Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) report.

Spiliotopoulos T. (2010). Votes and Comments in Recommender Systems: The Case of Digg. Working paper, University of Madeira.

Spiliotopoulos, A. (2008). A Methodological Framework for the Development of Usable Computer Systems. Selected BSc and MSc Theses, Vol. 5. Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2008.

Invited Talks, Guest Lectures and Conference Presentations

"Smoothing the Digital Identity Onboarding Process". Invited talk at the SPRITE+ Conference, Belfast, UK. 29 June 2023.

"Coordinated Cryptocurrency-Related Social Media Campaigns". Expert Fellow talk at the SPRITE+ Conference, Belfast, UK. 28 June 2023.

“Human-Centred Design of Digital Identities”. Invited talk at the Human-Centred Computing seminar at the University of Birmingham, UK. 21 February 2023.

"Data Security and Governance for Blockchain Technologies". Guest lecture at Northumbria University, UK. 6 December 2022.

“Verifiable Credentials for Financial Inclusion”. Poster presentation at the Turing Trustworthy Digital Identity conference. 13 September 2021 (held online).

“Verifiable Credentials for Vulnerable Consumers in Finance”. “Dynamo 21: Tech Leads the Way in a Challenging World” conference. 17 June 2021 (held online).

“Identifying and Supporting Financially Vulnerable Consumers in a Privacy-Preserving Manner: A Use Case Using Decentralised Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials”. CHI 2021 workshop on Designing for New Forms of Vulnerability: Exploring transformation and empowerment in times of COVID-19. Yokohama, Japan, 7 May 2021 (held online).

“Studying Social Network Sites via Computational Methods”. Doctoral Consortium presentation at the IEEE Ninth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (IEEE RCIS 2015), Athens, Greece, 14 May 2015.

“Predicting Tie Strength with the Facebook API”. 18th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2014), Athens, Greece, 3 October 2014.

“Urban Twitter Networks and Communities: A Case Study of Microblogging in Athens”. Hybrid City Conference 2013, Athens, Greece, 23 May 2013.

“Applications of Social Network Analysis for User Modeling”. International Workshop on User Modeling from Social Media at ACM IUI 2012, Lisbon, Portugal, 14 February 2012.

“Studying social behavior through the computational modeling of online social networks”. Internal Research Presentations, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Portugal, 14 October 2011.

“An Integrated Approach Towards the Construction of an HCI Methodological Framework”. 1st European Workshop on HCI Design and Evaluation, Limassol, Cyprus, 8 April 2011.

“Privacy on the Web: What can we do about it?”. Internal Research Presentations, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Portugal, 11 June 2010.

“Qualitative and quantitative approaches concerning the use of locative media: Usability evaluation of the LOCUNET system" (with D. Charitos and N. Tsianos). Usability and Accessibility Days 2008, Athens, Greece, 10-14 November 2008.

“Entrepreneurship and employability for students with disabilities” (with I. Voulgari and A. Pino). University of Athens, Greece, 25 October 2008.

"Personalisation techniques and their application: An e-insurance cross selling case study". CIE 2002, 30th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Tinos Island, Greece, June 28 – July 2, 2002.

"An integrated web-based system architecture for new methods of work in the insurance sector". MIS 2002, 3rd International Conference on Management Information Systems, Halkidiki, Greece, 24-26 April 2002.

“An abstract systems architecture model and main technologies for e-services of the retail insurance sector". E-COMM LINE 2001, 2nd European Conference on e-Commerce/e-Activities/e-Working/e-Business, on-line services, virtual institutes and their influence on the economic and social environment, Bucharest, Romania, 24-25 September 2001.

Participation in Funded R&D Projects

08/2022 - present: "AGENCY: Assuring Citizen Agency in a World with Complex Online Harms".
05/2023 - 12/2023: "SMOOTH: Smoothing the Digital Identity Onboarding Process".
05/2023 - 09/2023: "Tabular Data Under Inference Attacks: An Online Survey on the Public Perception of Privacy".
Affiliation: University of Birmingham, UK.

10/2021 - present: "Centre for Digital Citizens".
11/2020 - 07/2022: "FinTrust: Trust Engineering for the Financial Industry".
11/2020 - 06/2021: "FinClusion: Verifiable Credentials for Financial Inclusion".
04/2021 - 07/2022: "Demystifying Decentralised Finance".
02/2022 - 10/2022: "Development of a Sentiment Dictionary of Slang and Jargon Terms for Decentralised Finance".
Affiliation: Newcastle University, UK.

11/2019 – 04/2020. "Understanding the Role of Individual Differences in the Adoption, Use and Exploitation of Smart Home Technology”.
Affiliation: Cardiff University, Wales, UK.

01/2015 – 03/2015. “STIMULATE” (Stimulating the Public Attitude Towards Advanced Materials)
Affiliation: National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece.

03/2010 - 09/2014. “Usability Evaluation Techniques for Situated Privacy”
Affiliation: Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Portugal.

09/2009 – 10/2010. “WeSP” (Web Security and Privacy: Weaving together technology innovation with human and policy considerations)
Affiliation: Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Portugal.

11/2007 – 11/2008. “Access of Disabled People to eGovernment Services”
Affiliation: University of Athens, Greece.

07/2008 – 10/2008. “Market on Wheels – Extension” (Extending the employability of people with disabilities to the society and the student community).
Affiliation: University of Athens, Greece.

02/2008 – 07/2008. “EURIDICE” (EURopean Inter-Disciplinary research on Intelligent Cargo for Efficient, safe and environment-friendly logistics).
Affiliation: SingularLogic SA, Greece.

07/2007 – 05/2008. “LOCUNET” (LOcation-based Communication Urban NETwork).
Affiliation: University of Athens, Greece.

10/2005 – 12/2007. “Market on Wheels” (Holistic intervention of sheltered business activities through a network of people with motor and mental disabilities).
Affiliation: University of Athens, Greece.

10/2002 – 12/2004. ”Proteas” (Promoting the employment of people with motor disabilities).
Affiliation: University of Athens, Greece.

10/2001 – 03/2002. “EURESCOM P1106” (e-Commerce Impacts on Service and Network Operations and Management).
Affiliation: University of Athens, Greece - Hellenic Organization of Telecommunications (OTE), Greece.

11/2000 – 10/2002. “ATTRACT” (Advanced Teleworking Techniques and Teleservices for Insurance Agents and Customers).
Affiliation: University of Athens, Greece.