Theodore Chadjipadelis is Professor of Applied Statistics and the Director of the Laboratory of Applied Political Research, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests cover the field of applied statistics and mainly refer to issues of experiment design, statistical research training, public opinion, political and electoral behaviour, electoral geography, election systems as well as urban and regional programming and development. He coordinated the Greek section of the program C.C.S. (Comparative Candidates Survey) – a co-operation between 30 research teams – and of C.S.E.S. (Comparative Study of Electoral Systems). He coordinates the Greek section of the program MeDem (Measuring Electoral Democracy) - a co-operation between 30 research teams - and of the Horizon project AI4GOV (Artificial Intelligence for Governance).