About
Vasiliki has thirty years of professional experience in covering and managing breaking science news for Greek and foreing news media outlets (TV, radio and digital).
She is as senior feature contributor to Dnews and her reporting has appeared at various Greek and foreign printed and digital media outlets like "Naftemporiki" newspaper, "Ethnos", "Proto Thema", "Kathimerini", “K” magazine, "Imerisia", "Ependytis", Cancerworld, Chemistry World, Euroscientist, etc.
She covers topics related to health, environment, technology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, nanoscience, etc. Working also as a public information and communication expert for universities and research Institutes she successfully raises the profile of their research and initiatives, landing stories on the Greek and international press and thus to the public and organizing outreach activities.
She currently contributes as a Teaching Fellow and Instructor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (https://www.auth.gr/en/jour) giving seminars on Science Journalism at a postgraduate level and workshops on Science Communication for young researchers, while she is professionally involved in lifelong learning education and training with the National and Kapodistrian University (https://elearningekpa.gr/courses/the-art-of-science-communication) and the University of Peloponnese (https://visualeu.org/?lang=en).
She has reported from across Europe and been awarded reporting fellowships.She has achieved exceptional interviews with experts in various fields of research (CERN physicists, European and Greek environmental scientists, EU Brain project neuroscientists, Max Planck Institute bioscientists etc.) She is very proud of interviewing such notable leaders as the Nobel Laureates (she has conducted 30 interviews within two years)
She was the Kavli 2024 Journalism Fellow, the 7th and 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum Press Fellow and the Falling Walls summit 2019 and 2022 Press Fellow (the only journalist from Europe).
She has also joined with a grant a number of international press study trips and she has visited many research centers and universities in Europe among them: CERN, EMBL, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (ISAE-SUPAERO) in Toulouse, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, University of Freiburg, Technische Universität München (TUM), University of Tartu in Estonia,Technical University of Denmark, German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Rottenburg University of Applied Forest Sciences, MEDES, the French Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology in Toulouse, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Université de Genève, University of Stuttgart, University of Vienna, L’Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP),Cité de l'Espace in Toulouse
Vasiliki Michopoulou holds a PhD in International Relations University of Peloponnese, Corinth (http://pedis.uop.gr/), Greece with a scholarship from Stavros Niarchos Foundation (https://www.snf.org/). Her PhD thesis on "Transnational Advocacy Networks" and especially on Media and Science Advocacy is unique in the Greek literature. She also holds a Master of Arts on Policy Management and International Politics from the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, University of Peloponnese (http://pedis.uop.gr/) and a Bachelor degree in Biology from the School of Sciences of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (https://en.uoa.gr/). She has also a module certification of Video/Multimedia, of Data journalism and of Investigative journalism from the School of Journalism-Columbia University with a scholarship from Stavros Niarchos Foundation
She is the only Greek journalist ever elected Board member of the International Science Writers Association (iswa) http://internationalsciencewriters.org/, and a member of many other international journalistic unions like: the Panhellenic Federation of Journalists(POESY) http://www.poesy.gr/, Athens Daily Newspapers Journalists Union (ESIEA) https://www.esiea.gr/, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) http://www.ifj.org/, the Panhellenic Union of Bioscientists (PEV) https://www.pev.gr/
Vasiliki is an Ambassador of the Communication Institute of Greece (COMinG) http://coming.gr/ which is an International Association of Academics, Researchers, and Professionals, from all around the world and an associate member of EUCED (European Economic Interest Grouping).
She is also the inspirer and founder of shareyouresearch https://www.shareyouresearch.eu/en/ which is a unique Greek scientific content solution for researchers and innovators who need technically and scientifically accurate content in any format
She speaks and writes in Greek, English and German and is capable of communicating a little bit also in Turkish and Italian.
Awards
Vasiliki Michopoulou has been awarded as the “Greek Science Writer of the Year 2017” by the Association of British Science Writers (absw) while she was a nominee for the European Science Writer of the Year 2017 (absw). She also received the “Woman Journalist of the year 2018” award from the VOTRE BEAUTE Magazine.
Recently she was included in the list of experts in the field of science communication and other relevant domains of the European Parliament
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