D. (Dimitris) Soudias, Dr

Dimitris Soudias is an affiliated researcher at the Chair Group European Culture and Literature (University of Groningen), and Principal Investigator of the research project Welfare Visions 2.0: Future-Making Practices in the Social Economies of Athens and Berlin (WELFAIR) (University of Kassel), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His research builds on political sociology and cultural economy approaches to study such issues as solutionism, creativity, happiness, (social) innovation and entrepreneurship in neoliberalism.

Previously, Dimitris held academic positions and fellowships at the University of Amsterdam, the London School of Economics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, and Freie Universität Berlin. He was also a member in the theme group 'The Politics of (De)familiarization' at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Spring 2022), and the Head of Library and Information at the Goethe-Institut Athens (2018-2020).

Dimitris received his doctorate in political science from Philipps-Universität Marburg (2019). He holds a University Teaching Qualification (BKO) from the University of Groningen, a graduate diploma in Middle East studies from the American University in Cairo, and a Dipl. Pol. in political science from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Dimitris' recent book, Paradoxes of Emancipation: Radical Imagination and Space in Neoliberal Greece , has been published with Syracuse University Press.