Stylianos Ioannis Tzagkarakis

Dr. Stylianos Ioannis Tzagkarakis was born in Athens in 1986. The General Secretary of the Hellenic Association of Political Scientists (HAPSc) is Teaching Fellow and postdoctoral researcher (paid fellowship from IKY) at the Department of Political Science of the University of Crete. He holds a Bachelor in Political Science, a Master’s degree in “Political Analysis and Political Theory”, with specialization in “Public and European Policies”, and a PhD (title: “Crisis and the Welfare State in Greece 2009-2015: A Critical Analysis”) from the Department of Political Science of the University of Crete. His PhD thesis has been awarded the HAPSc “Katerina Panagopoulou” award as the best doctoral thesis in political science for 2017. Dr. Stylianos Ioannis Tzagkarakis is a researcher at the Centre for Political Research and Documentation (KEPET) of the Department of Political Science of the University of Crete. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Political Culture Standing Group. He has been visiting researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Peloponnese from September 2018 to September 2019 and he has worked as a key researcher in several research projects, funded by European and National funds. Dr. Stylianos Ioannis Tzagkarakis speaks English, Spanish and French and has more than 50 scientific publications in scientific journals, conference proceedings and collective volumes. He has given presentations in more than 40 international scientific conferences and workshops in Greece and abroad. His research and scientific interests focus, inter alia, on social policies, public policies, social vulnerability, social rights, immigration, health and sustainability policies. He is Editor in Chief of the HAPSc Policy Briefs Series, Member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Nature Social Sciences and of the European Journal of Political Culture, and reviewer in 5 international journals.