Iakovos D. MichaIlidis serves as a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Department of History and Archaeology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In the academic year 2012-2013, he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus. During the academic year 2019-2020, he received a scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation and worked as a Visiting Researcher at George Washington University, USA. In the same year, he also held the position of an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford. Additionally, he has served as an Expert for the Western Balkans at the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union.
Currently, he is the head of the Research Center of the Society for Macedonian Studies in Thessaloniki and is a member of various Greek and European networks and organizations, including the European thematic history network Clioh/Cliohnet. He holds an honorary membership in the "Parnassos" Philological Association and is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Historical Museum, Athens, as well as the Folklore Museum of Thessaloniki. Notably, he played a significant role as the Coordinator-Evaluator of the team that developed the Greek National History Curricula for Primary and Secondary Education in the period 2014-2015.
Iakovos MichaIlidis has contributed as a historical consultant, along with Professor Thanos Veremi, to several TV series and documentaries, such as "1821," "Alexandros and Dimitrios Ypsilantis. The pioneers of the Revolution," "About Freedom," "Refugees of 1922. Life after," "Twice a Stranger," and "The Orphans of 1821. Stories of American Philhellenism." He has also edited historical specials on SKAI 100.3 radio, covering topics like the Balkan Wars, the Asia Minor Campaign, Eleftherios Venizelos, the Triple Occupation in Greece, and the Greek Civil War. Notably, he is the author of numerous special studies and articles that delve into Greek, Balkan, and European history during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among his recent works, the editorship of the series of METAICHMIO publications titled "200 years since the Greek Revolution. The protagonists, the decisive issues" stands out.

He was born in Athens in 1972. He is Professor of Contemporary Political History and Chairman of the Department of Management Science & Technology, University of Peloponnese. He is also the Deputy Director of the MSc "Public Administration & Local Government" (University of Peloponnese). In the past, he has also taught for 8 years (2004-2012) at the Ionian University/Department of History, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and more recently, at the National School of Public Administration and the Hellenic Open University.
He is President of the Ephorate of the General State Archives. He is also the Editorial Secretary of the oldest Greek magazine of ideas, NEAS ESTIAS, and a regular columnist for the newspaper, Kathimerini, and the magazine Lifo. He is a member of the Scientific Committees of the journal Philosofein and of Foreign Affairs, The Hellenic Edition, while he also directs the series "Ideas & Politics" at Metachmio Publications. In addition, he is a member of the Scientific Committee of the "Angelos Delivorias" Circle under the auspices of the Hellenic American Union and a member of the Scientific Committee of the "Cyprus Society for Historical Studies''. So far, he has been a member of the scientific/organizing committee of 14 conferences.
He is the author of Phases and contradictions of the Greek state in the 20th century, 1910-2001 (Estia, 2019) and From "Anendotos" to "right-wing anti-right". Political and social divisions in the "long" decade of the 1960s (Kathimerini, 2019). He has over 70 publications in scientific journals, collective volumes or conference proceedings, and has edited 9 collective volumes or conference proceedings, including the English-language volume, P. Panayiotopoulos - D.P. Sotiropoulos (eds), Political and Cultural Aspects of Greek Exoticism, Palgrave-Macmillan (July 2019). He has also been selected, since 2017, as a member of the "Friends of the Academy of Athens" (FAA), which is proposed by the Academy of Athens itself. He is proficient in English, French, Spanish and a little Italian and German.

Georgios (Giorgos) Antoniou received his PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute of Florence (2007), while he obtained his BA and his MA from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki(1996 & 2000 respectively). He is a former Research Fellow of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah in Paris (2005- 2007) and a former visiting lecturer at Yale University (2007-2008) and at the University of Cyprus (2008-2009). He holds the Chair of Jewish Studies since 2015 and since 2019 he has become a faculty member in the Department of History and Archaeology. In 2019 he was awarded the Baron Velge Prize for research and teaching about World War Two and he held, as a visiting scholar, the International Chair for the Second World War in Brussels (ULB). He is a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance since 2018 (Education).
Assistant Professor Antoniou has published extensively on the Greek 40’s and the aftermath of the decade. In 2018 his co-edited volume (with Dirk Moses) on the Holocaust in Greece was published from Cambridge University Press. His recent publications include the following:
(Coedited with E. Chekimoglou), The Jews of Greece, Alexandreia, 2022 (in Greek)
Αntoniou, G., Dinas, E. and Kosmidis, S. (2020), “Collective Victimhood and Social Prejudice: A Post- Holocaust Theory of Anti-Semitism. Political Psychology”, 41: 861- 886.
Papamichos Chronakis, P., & Antoniou, G. (2019). From Individual Survival to Social Networks of Survivors: Rethinking the Digital Archive of the Greek Holocaust. Umanistica Digitale, 3(4).
He is the national leader on two Horizon2020 projects, www.repast.eu (on the nexus between troubled past and present societies,2018-2021) and https://www.ehri-project.eu/, about digital infrastructure and Holocaust archives and resources(2021-2024). He has participated actively in many research projects, either as a leader or as a participant, which focused on the Concentration Camps in Greece, on memory of the Holocaust, on the Cold War and on the conduction of oral history interviews. Some of his recent research programs combine historical research with digital applications like the programs Mapping the Memory & Mapping the Jewish Childhood. Antoniou has received grants and scholarships from the Greek Scholarships Foundation, the Remarque Institute, the European University Institute, the Stavros Niarchos Diaspora Fellow Program(Host) and the Gennadius Library, etc.

Nikolaos Ath, Misolidis is a graduate of the History and Archaeology Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He obtained his Master with honors from the same department in 2013 and his dissertation handles “The demographic image of Thessaloniki Vilayet during the long 19th century (1789 – 1912)”. Currently, he is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Recourses Management in the University of Peloponnese. His PhD thesis is related to “The work of the United Nations in Post-War Greece 1944 – 1949. The Repatriation and Rehabilitation of the Greek Displaced Persons from Axis Countries during the decade of 1940 by United Nations Relief and Rehabilitations Administration (UNRRA) and its successor International Refugee Organization (IRO)”. Furthermore, he has been a member of the Society of Macedonian Studies Research Center since 2010 and has participated in many research projects such as “The sightseers in Macedonia 15th – 20th century”( http://www.sightseers.gr/ currently only in Greek), “The Communities of Macedonians abroad in 17th to 19th century”, (http://www.grcom.gr/cms/ - currently only in Greek), The Greek Independence War through the American and British Newspapers 1821 - 1830”. From 2017, his scientific interests focus on the international and transnational humanitarian aid official and private to Greece in the first half of 20th century. Therefore, he has published several articles in conference’s abstracts and in international collective volumes about the work of American Humanitarian Agencies in Greece in the decades of 1920’s and 1930’s. Moreover, he is a Research Fellow in the Chair of Pontic Studies in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and he participated in the research program under the title “Research and dissemination of the Culture and History of Asia Minor and Pontus Greeks” which was under the auspices of the Chair of Pontic Studies. He has conducted academic research in the Diplomatic and Historical Archive of Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, British National Archives, United Nations Archives, Rockefeller Archive Center, and the Archive of Burke Missionary Library of Columbia University regarding to the work of the American and British Red Cross, Near East Relief/ Foundation and UNRRA to Greece in the first half of 20th century.

Dimitris Mitsopoulos is a Ph.D. student in modern European history at Columbia University. His research mainly focuses on the history of illicit trade, trafficking, and criminality in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. Apart from that, Dimitris is interested in the Jewish History of the Balkans and in the history of international organizations. Dimitris comes from Thessaloniki in Greece and he completed his BA at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and his MA in Global History at the Free and Humboldt Universities of Berlin, as a DAAD scholar.

Thomas Dimopoulos is a graduate of the School of History and Archeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He completed his postgraduate studies with honors in Modern and Modern History at the same school. He is a PhD candidate in Modern and Contemporary History. His doctoral thesis studies the relations between Greece and Yugoslavia in the Interwar period. He specializes in the Balkan policy of Greece in the 20th century and its relations with the other the Balkan states. His research interests focus among others on the genocide studies, ethnic cleansing and displacement during the war in Yugoslavia, as well as of Greeks in the Interwar and after the Second World War era.