Dr George Siakas serves as Assistant Professor of Political Behavior at the Department of Political Science at the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh). He also serves as the Research Director of the Public Opinion Research Unit (PORU) at the University of Macedonia Research Institute. He’s been involved in the design and the implementation of numerous quantitative and qualitative research projects for private entities, news networks, NGOs and think tanks. He’s also collaborated with research institutions as an external expert.
His research interests focus on survey methodology, the Greek party system, electoral behavior and modes of data collection. In 2017, he authored a book on how to measure attitudes and beliefs of the Greek Public Opinion with the title (“Measuring Public Opinion”). In 2019 he co-authored a book on the attitudes and the beliefs of the Greek Public opinion during the Greek economic crisis (2010-2019).