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There are two Reddit posts in r/AskAcademia and a more detailed and updated vroniplag page (this specific page contains all of the 52 segments found in Andreas Theodorou’s thesis) about the case of academic plagiarism of Theodorou which is shown below:

Andreas Theodorou obtained his Phd thesis from the University of Bath. He is currently a visiting associate professor at UPC , previously a researcher at the University of Umea. He also was a CEO of a company related to AI ethics which he had with his mentor Virginia Dignum.

His thesis contains several plagiarized sentences, most of which are not detectable by plagiarism detection software. It appears that Andreas has taken steps to avoid being discovered. He appears to have methodically inspected each of his plagiarized sentences with a content similarity detector and made minor changes to them in order to avoid being caught. Many of these phrases can still be found via a manual google search.