Filippos Nikolopoulos

Philip Nikolopoulos studied law and political science at the University of Athens and later earned a doctorate from the Department of Sociology at Panteion University. Since 1990, he has been teaching sociology at the School of Philosophy at the University of Crete, where he was elected Assistant Professor in 1993. He has served as a visiting fellow at the Department of Sociology at Yale University (1994), a Research Scholar at the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics (1995), a Senior Associate Member at St Antony's College, Oxford (1995), a Research Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (1997), and a visiting professor at the School of Sociology at Lomonosov University in Moscow (1996). Since 1994, he has been elected to the board of directors of the Research Committee on Social Systems Theory and Sociocybernetics of the International Sociological Association. He has authored books and studies on sociological topics, as well as numerous political articles in magazines and newspapers. Additionally, he has conducted empirical social research in various regions of Greece. Alongside his academic work, he is involved in literature (poetry, essays, criticism) and is a member of the Society of Greek Writers. Furthermore, he is a lawyer at the Supreme Court of Greece, actively participates in politics, and is involved in the ecological movement.