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I am a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) of the University of Oxford, and a Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at Nuffield College. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the LSE’s European Institute, from where I also hold my PhD. My research focuses on the politics and political economy of place in European countries. In the context of a growing recognition that spatial inequality profoundly affects political outcomes, I study the institutional and socio-political factors that affect economic performance at the local level, on the one hand, and the impact of local economic trajectories on political attitudes and outcomes, on the other.

My book manuscript, Cooperation against the Odds (under contract with Cambridge University Press), explains how economic actors start working together to address challenges that they face in common in low-trust environments, fostering upgrading in fragmented economies. Cooperation is a key ingredient for inclusive growth and innovation across the Global North and South: it can help left-behind areas recover their dynamism; middle-income regions move upmarket; and low-income regions become exporters. Yet, we know strikingly little about how to create cooperation in places where it does not already exist. Drawing on evidence from four pairs of matching case studies, the book shows that economic actors start working together thanks to a combination of boundary-spanning local leadership and facilitative policy instruments made available in surprising ways even in the least likely environments. My articles in New Political Economy and the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society present some of my first findings within this research agenda.

My Leverhulme Trust-funded project Land inequality and the politics of place in advanced democracies explores the impact of the land distribution on the organisation of economic activity in the Global North, where agriculture is no longer as economically central as it was in the past. Even though the land politics literature overwhelmingly focuses on agriculture, many other sectors also use land as a key input: from tourism to urban retail, from energy production to carbon offsetting, from manufacturing to wholesale distribution in post-industrial areas. How land is distributed locally - the degree to which it is concentrated or fragmented - determines what types of economic opportunities local residents have in areas specialised in those sectors, and, as a result, how they think about politics. My next set of papers address these themes using geospatial analysis based on cadastral data in the context of Greece, Spain, and the UK.

I am a co-editor of a Special Issue entitled “Firm-centred, multi-level approaches to overcoming semi-peripheral constraints”, which was published in Studies in Comparative International Development in 2024 and advances a research agenda for non-hegemonic knowledge exchange about economic development across the Global North and South. My publications in Politics & Society and Governance address the causes and impacts of Brexit in post-industrial areas, while my article in Political Studies Review explores some broader conceptual issues about the link between geography, globalization, and populism. I am also co-author of The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost? (Palgrave Pivot, 2018).

In addition to my academic research, I am passionate about teaching and policy-making. I have taught courses on EU politics, comparative political economy, the political economy of the green transition, international relations, and qualitative methods in Oxford, London, Bologna, Washington DC, and Athens. I have also worked as a member of the office of the Greek Minister of Education, a policy officer at the European Commission’s SRSS (now DG REFORM), and a trainee in the cabinet of the President of the European Commission.

This website is structured based on my research projects. For a list of publications by type and other information about my experience, please kindly refer to my CV.