PhD in Urban Planning and Regional Development, School of Architecture Faculty of Technology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Thesis Title: ‘Urban space and emancipatory practices: Mobile populations in the Athenian city center during the period 2010-2019’. (Excellent with Distinction)
Diploma in Architecture Engineering, (BA-MSc) Polytechnic School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Academic Professional Experience
Research projects and works
Researcher in research project ‘DIGINAUTS- Migrants digital practices in/of the European border regime’. IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). (2018-2020)
Research assistant on ‘Migration and Commoning Practices’, Department of Culture and Global Studies, University of Aalborg. (2017)
External researcher on ‘Infrastructures and materialities on housing and migration in Athens, Greece’, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Philosophy of Science and Politics, University of Amsterdam.(2017)
Researcher in the project ‘Albanian Migrant Communities in Greece’. Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (CDRSEE) (2016)
Teaching experience
Philosophy of Science, (Instructor), 7.5 ECTS, Planning & conducting 50% of course, (7 lectures), 4th semester, BA in Global Business Informatics, IT University of Copenhagen (2020).
Philosophy of Science, (Instructor), 7.5 ECTS, Planning & conducting 50% of course, (7 lectures), 4th semester, BA in Global Business Informatics, IT University of Copenhagen (2019).
Reassembling Innovation,(Instructor), 7.5 ECTS, Lecturer, 2 Lectures, MA,1st semester in Digital Innovation Management, IT University of Copenhagen (2019).
Reassembling Innovation,(Instructor),7.5 ECTS, Lecturer, 1 Lecture, MA,1st semester in Digital Innovation Management, IT University of Copenhagen (2018).
Reassembling Innovation,(Instructor),7.5 ECTS, Lecturer, 1 Lecture, MA,1st semester in Digital Innovation Management, IT University of Copenhagen (2018).
Summer school in Urban sustainability 10 days visit and lectures in three Cyclades Islands, (Instructor), BA, CYA (College Year in Athens) (2016).
Art and Theory of Aesthetics, (Course Manager, Instructor) 12 Lectures), Sindos Public Vocational Center, Thessaloniki (2011).
Methods of measurement & design, Lecturer, (14 lectures), Delta Vocational Training Center, Thessaloniki (2010).
Methods of Construction, Domical and Structural Design, Lecturer (14 lectures), Delta Vocational Training Center, Thessaloniki (2010).
Methods of Construction, Domical and Structural Design, Lecturer (14 lectures), Delta Vocational Training Center, Thessaloniki (2010).
Mechanical and Electrical Design, Lecturer (14 lectures), Delta Vocational Training Center, Thessaloniki (2010).
Research Groups
2019-Present STS-MIGTECH (Migration-Technology) (http://sts-migtec.org/)
2018-2021 Technologies in Practice Research Group (https://tip.itu.dk/)
2013-1017 Urban Conflicts Research Group (https://urbanconflicts.wordpress.com/ )
Selected talks/presentations
Mobile Citizenship in Digital Spaces: Migrants’ emancipatory practices in contested borderscapes. Panel: "Reconfigurations of Citizenship in the Digital Sphere’’, ‘Doing Digital Identities – Enacting citizenship in the digital age’, 29-30 November 2023, Leuphana University. Invited talk.
Care as commoning and commoning as care: moments of care in the Greek digital space, Panel: Interesting worlds as matters of caring and commoning ,STS Italia Conference 2023, Interesting worlds to come, University of Bologna, Italy 28-30 June, Contributed talk.
Digital nomads in the Greek territory: Mobile citizenship in spaces of enclosures, Workshop on “Post-Pandemic Transformations of Citizenship”, Demos Research Group, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, 15- 16 June 2023, Contributed talk.
Gender and Digital Technologies, Workshop on Digital technologies, Session: Technology and Democracy, 7 March 2023. Poulantzas Institute, Athens. Invited talk
a.The "green" geopolitics of mining and energy transition: From mining regions to urban spaces. Contributed talk with Kostas Petrakos & b. Digital geographies of migration: mobile populations, digital space and resistance on Greek Territory Contributed talks. 22 years Geographies. Crises - Resistances - Perspectives, 24-26 November 2022, Harokopio University, Greece, Contributed talk.
Mobility and research/research in mobility: Gendered aspects of Precarity in Academic Research in Keynote Panel: Precarity in academic research Research Committee 21 (RC21) on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development of the International Sociological Association (ISA), 24-26 August 2022 Harokopio University, Invited talk in Round Table.
Routes of extractivism: accumulation processes resistance practices in the case of ‘Skouries’ gold copper mining site in northern Chalkidiki, Greece. Extraction, Multiple frontiers of Power and Resistance.Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Graduate Coneference Central European University, Vienna, June3 4, 2022. Contributed talk with Kostas Petrakos.
‘Digital Methods in Social Sciences: Bridging the gap between online and offline research. DEMOS, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University. Invited talk.
‘Radical Care in Feminist Digital Spaces’ 4S2021 Conference. The Society of Social Studies Annual Conferenc. Toronto/(Remote)Session organization with Hara Kouki.
Migrant’s digital space: mobile populations, space and digital resistance in the Greek territory. PSUC 2021.Between the home and the square: bridging the boundaries of public space conference. Aristotle University. Contributed talk.
‘Spaces of extraction and struggle’ CAPITAL, CLIMATE, CRISIS – The Sixth Annual Conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies. Aalborg University. Contributed talk with Kostas Petrakos.
‘Mobile Cyborgs: subverting the myth of the ‘other’ en route to Europe through digital technologies’. EASST4S Conference, Prague, (Remote). Contributed talk.
‘Moving populations, space and digital resistance in the Greek territory and borderland’ in Security Technology and International Security in the Mediterranean Region Third TRANSAD workshop, Barcelona. Invited talk.
‘Moving populations, and resistance practices in the Greek territory’ Workshop on mobilizations, struggles and solidarities in the urban context, Aalborg University. Contributed talk.
Organizing and running ‘DIGINAUTS Conference and book workshop with TechFugees hackathon’. 24-25 October 2019 KU & IT University of Copenhagen with Nina Mollerup.
‘Migrants’ Digital Resistance Practices in the Greek Territory and Borderland’. 4S Conference, New Orleans. Contributed talk.
‘DIGINAUTS: New approaches to migration trajectories and solidarity work through digital media practices in/of the European border regime’, IMISCOE Malmö.
‘DIGINAUTS. Migrants’ Digital Practices in and of the European Regime’9th Tensions of Europe (ToE) Conference “Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age”, University of Luxembourg. Invited talk (Remote).
‘Migrants’ Digital Practices for Gender & LGBTQI+ Solidarity: Narratives from Greece’ June 2019, Nordic STS conference, Tampere. Contributed talk.
‘Commoning Personal Space: Moving Populations and Housing Practices in Greece During a Crisis Era’, Urban Studies Foundation-sponsored seminar The Welcoming City – seminar series on Migration, Bordering and Resistance in European Cities. IT University of Copenhagen. Contributed talk.
Migrants’ Digital Practices for Gender & LGBTQI+ Solidarity’ in Digitized Global Mobilities: the Role of New Media &Digitization in the Security approaches of the Refugee Crisis, Utrecht University. Contributed talk.
DIGINAUTS. Migrants’ Digital Practices in and of the European Regime: A mixed method approach’, The Politics of Method: Taming the New, Making Data Official, Workshop, March 2019,IT University of Copenhagen. Contributed talk.
‘Analog flows in a digital world: moving populations, space and digital resistance in the Greek territory’, Workshop in Migration Studies in the Digital Era. University of Antwerp. Contributed talk.
‘Commoning Personal Space: Inside out Outside in. Shifting architectures of refugee inhabitation’. Workshop at Max Plank Insitute, Gotingen. June 2019,Contributed talk.
‘Feminist geographies of resistance and emancipation: migrant women in the Athenian territory during a crisis era’ June, 2017,14th IMISCOE annual conference, Rotterdam. Contributed talk.
‘Moving populations and emancipatory spatial practices in Greece’s crisis-scapes’ International Conference on Migration, Irregularisation and Activism, Malmö University. Contributed talk.
‘Moving populations and housing practices in Greece during a crisis era’, International Conference Housing Activism: Beyond the West, Södertörn University, Stockholm. Contributed talk.
‘The banality of sexism in Athens’ public spaces’ seminar “City-Crisis-Exodus’,March 2016, School of Architecture, NTUA, Athens. Invited talk.
1. ‘An intersectional approach of space: the contribution of the Marxian thought to the evolution of radical methodological tools’ and 2. ‘Intersectional approaches in crisis scapes: the importance of class struggle in understanding contemporary crisis in Greece’ International Conference Social Class in the 21st Century, University of Amsterdam. Contributed talks.
‘The right to the city reversed: the Athenian right to the city in a crisis era’ in the International Workshop at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. Invited talk.
‘From demanding to occupying the city’, in ‘Transformations of space and its meaning in Greece amid crisis‘’ School of Architecture, Nov 2013 University of Thessaly, Volos. Contributed talk.
‘The right to the city reversed: the Athenian right to the city in a crisis era’, in Research Committee 21 (RC21) on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development of the International Sociological Association (ISA), Aug 2013, Humbolt University, Berlin. Contributed talk.
Planning and running the workshop ‘Urbanconflicts’ in collaboration with Irini Oraiopoulou Haris Tsavdaroglou, Orestis Pagalos at the School of Architecture Faculty of Technology, April 2013-June2015,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
‘Athens Urban Space Riots: From December 2008 Revolt to Mobilizations in the Era of Crisis’, in 1st International Conference of Anthropology and Urban Conflict, Barcelona, Spain. Contributed talk.
‘Urban space and revolt: The December 2008 riots’ RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2012’ ‘Security of Geography/Geography of Security’ Edinburgh UK. Contributed talk.
