Despina Kopanaki is a project manager at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) and at the Technical University of Crete (TUC). She has participated in the project coordination of I-BiDaaS (GA#780787), MARVEL (GA#957337), and SecOPERA (GA #101070599) EU-funded projects. Before that, she was involved in more than 20 European and National projects in the area of mobility, data mining, privacy, big data, and data analytics as a researcher, project manager, and financial manager. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics and an MSc in Applied Economics and finance from Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece.