Emmanouil (Manos) Papagiannidis is a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science. In the past, he has received his B.Sc. in Applied Informatics from the University of Macedonia (UOM), his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Newcastle and his M.Sc. in Data Science from Newcastle University.

Moreover, Manos has worked as a software developer in Greece (Athens) and the United Kingdom (Newcastle) building websites, managing systems and improving or fixing existence code by adding new features and introducing new technologies.