Vasiliki Georgiadou is a Professor of Political Science at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens, and the Director of the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE). She holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster. Her current research interests focus on far-right parties, political behaviour, social and political trust, political radicalism, and violent extremism. She is author (in German) of the Non-capitalist Aspects of Development in Greece in the 19th Century (Frankfurt/M: Peter Lang, 1991) and (in Greek) of The Far Right and the Consequences of Consensus: Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Germany (Athens: Kastaniotis, 2008) and The Far Right in Greece, 1965-2018 (Athens: Kastaniotis 2019). She is currently a PI in the Horizon_2020 research program “EnTrust. Enlightened Trust: An examination of trust and distrust in governance”.