Who We Are

The team

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Dr. George Giannakopoulos

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Happy co-founder, Administrator and Member of the Board of SciFY and an unrepentant researcher (at NCSR Demokritos). His dream: seeing SciFY surpass it to make its own way.

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Vassilis Salapatas

Co-founder & Chief Financial Officer

Co-founder and Member of the Board of SciFY and proud father of two young doctors. Suffers from overproduction of ideas although he is gradually improving. When he grows up, he aspires to give a definitive answer to the question: "where are my glasses?".

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Alexandros Tzoumas

Chief Technical Officer

Ιn a continuous fight with chaos and complexity. Responsible for IT processes, productivity, and establishing a harmonic, pleasant working environment.

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Vassilis Giannakopoulos

Chief Marketing Officer Marketing, Social Impact and Business Development

Working dad, trying to solve more problems than the ones he creates. He has a great time doing marketing, fundraising, and increasing SciFY’s social impact in innovative ways. Wakes up annoyingly early.

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Dr. Aris Kosmopoulos

Machine Learning Expert & Principal Software Engineer

Develops software under the soothing sound of heavy metal music.. He plays with videogames and tabletop gadgets; occasionally he builds some. He also got a PhD in machine learning, hoping it would help him with gaming…

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Paul Isaris

Senior Software Engineer, Scrum Master & STEM Teacher

Lives to learn something new every day, in a constant fight with a plethora of software engineering and project management roles in technology startups, EU projects, NGOs, and open-source projects. When he is not programming he teaches children and teenagers.

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Despina Chalvatzi

Project Manager

She works where she chose to volunteer. What more could anyone ask for? And yet at SciFY she found the space to unfold her love for organization and creation. A classic bookworm that never stops being excited by new knowledge and opportunities for development!

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Antigoni Poulou

Front-end Developer & Business Analyst

Loves structure; her mind makes connections and categorizes everything in libraries so that they make sense, sometimes only to her. She couldn’t be anything but a programmer! A journey that started in SciFY (and has nothing to do with her studies) but could only be realized here!

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Nazeli Papadaki

Marketing Executive & Event Manager

She loves harmony and humor, and considers herself as a lifelong learner. She values clear communication that carries substance, connection, and inspiration. When every project runs like a “well-oiled machine", she is filled with joy!

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Afroditi Darzenta

Volunteer

Not sure if she’d prefer doing translations or putting on music and do product testing, but what’s sure is that time at work flies by!

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Manos C.

Principal Software Engineer / Front-end Expert

His favorite quote: “Whether it happens in a 100 years or a 1000 or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won’t just take us. It’ll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophanes… and all of this was for nothing… unless we go to the stars.”

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Stamatis Chrysikopoulos

Business Intelligence Consultant

With many years of experience in business intelligence projects, still enjoying diving into complex business processes.

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Fotis Papastergiou

Product Manager

A wandering professional who entered the field of IT out of love. At SciFY, he aspires to work as a product manager, focusing on the fusion of the core elements of technology, society, the environment, and entrepreneurship, to release energy for the benefit of all!

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Nelly Savrani

UI/UX & Brand Designer

After many years of wandering in the field of design, she continues to discover how important good aesthetics and effective visual communication are in all aspects of everyday life. A staunch supporter of the saying "As long as I live, I learn"

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Kostas Chalaris

DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

Driven by curiosity and a quest for knowledge, he believes there’s always something new to learn. With a passion for growth and innovation, he strives to contribute his best, while searching for his own answer to life, the universe, and everything (though the answer is 42).

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Panagiotis Tselegidis

Technical Support Engineer/ System Administrator

From a young age, he was drawn to things he didn’t know, and enjoyed fixing his friends’ broken toys. As he grew older, he worked professionally in machine operation while building and repairing computers as a hobby. Years later, he had the joy of turning that hobby into his profession.

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Dr. Victoria Sotiriadou

EU Project Manager

She loves continuous learning. She has a strategic mindset and experience in similar roles. She enjoys managing complex tasks. Yoga and meditation help her maintain a zen — or at least zen-ish — balance in her everyday life.

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Dr. Zampeta Kalogeropoulou

Quality Assurance Engineer

A researcher who made the leap from physics to psychology — and somewhere along the way discovered that she loves cleaning up the bugs AI leaves behind.

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Eftychia Georgiadi

EU Proposal Writer & Project Manager

She started on the front line, supporting people in vulnerable situations, managed and coordinated humanitarian programs, and worked on strategic planning. While training an ΑΙ conversational assistant she discovered a new passion and now, she’s trying to bring together humanities and innovation, ideally, without causing technological shock to anyone!

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Dimitra Pournara

AI Research Engineer

With multi-layered experience in Artificial Intelligence and computer science, she believes in interdisciplinary synergy with respect for people and sustainability. She is inspired by mathematical harmony within the world’s growing entropy.