Despoina Mantziari
Ph.D. candidate at the AUTH School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Despoina Mantziari is a Ph.D. candidate at the AUTH School of Journalism and Mass Communication. In collaboration with the AUTH Lab of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation, she is pursuing her doctoral research on patient empowerment, mHealth technologies and telemedicine. Since 2018, she has been a Research Associate at the AUTH Lab of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation and the Thessaloniki Action for Health & Wellbeing Living Lab (Thess-AHALL). Since 2019, she has been assistant coordinator of the “Thessaloniki: Mental Health & Wellbeing” Working Group of the EC JRC City Science Initiative and of the “Thessaloniki AHA Ecosystem” Reference Site of the EIPonAHA/RSCN network. Her research interests focus on citizen science, participatory research and Living Labs.