Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Senior Research Fellow at the ELIAMEP research foundation (Athens) and research associate of the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Dimitri has been a visiting fellow at the LSE, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, the “Sciences Po”, Paris, Harvard’s Center of European Studies, Princeton’s Center for Hellenic Studies and the European University Institute in Florence. He has taught at the Instituto Juan March (Madrid) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University).

He serves on the editorial board of the journals South European Society and Politics, Mediterranean Politics, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. Dimitri does research in comparative politics and has published on contemporary Greek, South European and Balkan politics, focusing on democratisation, public administration, civil society, education, and the welfare state.

Dimitri's publications include 6 monographs, 4 books and 10 edited or co-edited volumes in Greek and English. He has studied law, sociology, and political science at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (LLB), the LSE (MSc) and Yale University (MA, M.Phil., and Ph.D., awarded with distinction, 1991).

Hans-Peter Kriesi studied sociology at the Universities of Bern, Zurich and Chicago. He obtained his PhD in sociology at the University of Zurich (1976), where he also did his Habilitation in sociology (1980). In 1984 he became a professor for collective political behaviour at the University of Amsterdam. In 1988, he went to the University of Geneva, where he taught as a professor of comparative and Swiss politics until 2002, when he took up the chair for comparative politics at the University of Zurich.

He was the Stein Rokkan Chair holder at the Department from 2012 to 2020. He is now part-time professor in the Deparmtent and Principal Investigator of the SOLID project, in collaboration with Maurizio Ferrera and Waltraud Schelkle.