Despina Kopanaki is a Project Manager at FORTH-ICS and a Ph.D. candidate in Informatics at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece. She holds a Bachelor Degree from the Department of Statistics (2004) and an MSc in Applied Economics & Finance from the Department of Economics (2006), both from Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece. She is part of the I-BiDaaS (GA#780787) and MARVEL (GA#957337) H2020 projects coordination team. Before that, she has been involved in several EU funded projects as a researcher and also as a financial project administrator and manager. Her research interests include data mining, data analytics and privacy-preservation of mobility data.