Dr. Fotios Fitsilis has an academic background in engineering, economics and law, as well as over 20 years of professional experience in science positions within both the private and the public sectors. Since 2009, he is Head of the Department for Scientific Documentation and Supervision and Lead Researcher at the Scientific Service of the Hellenic Parliament.
He teaches legal informatics at the National School of Public Administration and Local Government, Athens, and, in 2017, he founded the Hellenic OCR Team, a crowdsourcing initiative for the study of parliamentary data.