Despoina Mantziari holds a University Degree in Media and Mass Communication and a MS in Journalism and New Media with specific expertise on news content verification and Fake News, both of them from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She works as a Research Associate on Research Programmes at AUTH Medical Physics Lab. She has former experience as journalist, as well as in media monitoring and public relations. She has been member of several university research groups, including the Media Informatics Lab and the Peace Journalism Lab, while she is also member of the communication and data journalism team of Open Knowledge Greece and the scientific advisory group of the Journalists' Union of Macedonia and Thrace Daily Newspapers (ESIEMTH).