Thank you for visiting my website! Some words about my recent work and interests.

As from October 2022, I am working as a Post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics in the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU). I am the Principal investigator and coordinator of the project "Social and Intergenerational Network Interventions for the promotion of traditional Cretan-Mediterranean healthy life-styles and dietary habits to improve public health outcomes". This is an experimental field study with participants representing three generations in Crete. The project is coordinated through the HMU and it is a collaboration with other two colleagues of the department.

I am currently (October 2022) having collaborations with the Economics Department of the University of Crete. I am working on a laboratory experiment on "Ownership structure of firms and social welfare" which is funded by the Greek Special Research Funds (ELKE). I am the research expert responsible to develop and conduct the experiment with the participation of university students. I also collaborate with different faculty members for the establishment of the "Crete Experimental Economics Laboratory" (CEEL) in the premises of UoC, in Rethymno. We have recently applied in the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK) for a research funding including the conduction of an experimental study and the equipping of CEEL.

During my work in the Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission as a scientific officer (2012-2021), I have designed, developed and performed several laboratory and field experiments applying behavioural insights to different areas of policy interest: Tax Compliance, Physical Activity and Obesity, Social Incentives, Sustainable Transportation, Decentralization, Alcohol Consumption and Risk Attitude, Cheating Behaviour, Financial Switching, Vaccination Hesitancy, etc. Based on my published study on “Social Network Interventions” (Proestakis et al. 2018), I (together with other colleagues from JRC) have developed the BikePrints mobile app and run already in 40 European cities, the Social Biking Challenge, a network intervention for increasing bike use in Europe.

I continue collaborating with the EC as an independent external researcher in two on-going projects; the development of an interactive behavioural experiments platform (i-bex) and the conduction of an online and field experiment on vaccine hesitancy.

I hold a BA in economics sciences from University of Athens, Greece and a PhD in Behavioural Economics from Universidad de Granada, Spain. For more details, see my CV.