Leonidas Karakatsanis is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki Greece and an Honorary Fellow of the BIAA. He holds a PhD in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex. He worked at the BIAA for seven years starting in 2012, initially as a postdoc / research fellow, before undertaking the post of the Assistant Director of the Institute between 2015-2019. He has taught at Universities in the UK, Greece, and Turkey. He has researched and published in the following fields of expertise.
Fields of Expertise: The politics of identity and reconciliation, peace and conflict transformation, nationalism, minority rights, immigration, civil society and the politics of resistance
