Kostas Kanellopoulos (BA & MA University of Athens, PhD Panteion University, 2009) is the principal investigator of the project. Kostas has taught at the University of Crete, the University of Athens, the University of Peloponnese and at the Hellenic Open University and the Technological Educational Institutes of Patras and Piraeus. He has worked on several national, bilateral and European (H2020) research programs on protest event analysis, on the analysis political claims in the Eurozone crisis, discourse analysis, civil society, radical trade unionism and the emergence of contemporary transnational solidarity. The main subjects of his research, writing and teaching work are: the theory and study of social movements and contentious politics, comparative politics and the phenomenon of globalization, political participation and electoral behavior, social change and crisis, the phenomenon of nationalism, the sociology of news and discourse analysis. His work has been published in scientific journals and collective volumes in Greece and abroad. He is chief editor of the Greek Political Science Review and review editor of Frontiers in Political Science. He has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Political Science Association since 2006, having served twice as Deputy Secretary General (2008-2010 & 2014-2016) and twice as Secretary General (2016-2018 & 2018-today).