Alexandros Georgiou has been working at the Self-Help Promotion Programme of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 2001. He is a graduate of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy, Psychology (with a major in Psychology) of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Ioannina and holds a Master's degree in Social Clinical Psychology of Addictions from the Department of Psychology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.