Stamos Archontis holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is a member of the Journalists’ Union of Macedonia and Thrace Daily Newspapers (ESIEM-Th). He is currently attending the English-language postgraduate programme “Master of Arts in Digital Media, Communication and Journalism” at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
He has participated as a speaker in a series of conferences on the problem of misinformation, such as the European Economic and Social Committee seminar titled “The role of EU civil society in a globalized world of communications”, where he was an invited speaker on the issue of fake news in Greece. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he also participated as a speaker in events and conferences on the impact of scientific misinformation on public health. Indicative examples include talks at the 2nd Panhellenic Conference of the Hellenic Association of Professional Psychiatrists, at an event of the Hellenic Centre for Mental Health and Research, at the 4th Pharmacoeconomics Symposium, and at an event organized by the Laboratory for the Research of Medical Law and Bioethics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on legal and ethical issues that arose during the pandemic, including medical misinformation.
As part of his work as a science communicator, he has participated as a speaker in events such as Rationalism Days, Pint of Science, Athens Science Festival, and Patras Science Festival. In March 2023, he presented the cognitive factors that make false claims easier to accept, and the role of education in addressing misinformation, at TEDxAUEB, organized by the Athens University of Economics and Business. He also contributed as an author, for the chapter titled “The war against fake news in the digital age and the weapons in our intellectual arsenal”, to the peer-reviewed 2020 edition of the European Integration and Democracy Series, published by the Center for Direct Democracy Studies (CDDS) of the University of Bialystok in Poland in cooperation with Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.
Since 2016, he has been active as a science communicator on YouTube, where he runs the science channel “The Mad Scientist”.
