Prof. Byron Kotzamanis
Principal Investigator, Research Project “Demographic Imperatives in Research and Practices in Greece (DIRAP) Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.), University of Thessaly – Research Committee/LDSA
Demographer, Dr es Lettres et Sciences Humaines. Principal Investigator, Research Project “Demographic Imperatives in Research and Practices in Greece -Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (2020-23). Professor of Demography (1989-99) at the University of Thessaly (UTH). Researcher at the National Centre of Social Research (1983-1996). Associate/invited researcher in the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED/France), 1996-1998 and 2004-2013.Director (1998-2019) of the Laboratory of Demographic and Social Analyses (UTH) and of the Joint French-Greek Master Program “Population-Development-Foresight” (UTH and University of Bordeaux, 2007-2016). President (2001-2004) of the International Association of French Speaking Demographers and Honorary President since 2005.
President (2007->) of the Demobalk International Association. EU expert, responsible for the re-organization of the Statistical Institutes in the Western Balkan countries in the framework of PHARE and CARDS programs. Member of numerous Monitoring and observation missions for censuses operations in East European countries. Principal investigator for the implementation of several research programs financed by national, foreigners and international institutions. Author, co-author and editor of books about demographic -population developments in Greece and Balkans. Author of several papers in collective volumes examining issues of demographic policy, population projections, migration, mortality, family/fertility (as well as the spatial dimensions of demographic phenomena) in Greece / Balkans.