Grigoris Gkougkousis is a social anthropologist. He graduated from the department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and currently studies in the M.A. program of Social and Cultural Anthropology in the same university. His research interests are centered on digital anthropology, new media and visual culture, the politics of representation, desire and biopolitics. His bachelor thesis “Virtual Embodiments and Digital Geographies of Desire”, a digital ethnography of the PlanetRomeo dating app, discusses the theory of de-territorialization from the perspective of geo-locative media and the relation between embodiment and virtuality. The last years he has participated as a research assistant on the research projects “Learning from documenta” and “Amarynthos” and worked as an intern at the National Center of Social Research (EKKE) on projects concerning the refugee crisis and gentrification in the Athenian center.