Dimitris Soudias

Dimitris Soudias is an affiliated researcher at the University of Groningen's Faculty of Arts and Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded WELFAIR project at the University of Kassel. His research focuses on cultural economy, neoliberalism, radical politics, and happiness studies, with regional expertise in Greece and Egypt. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Philipps-Universität Marburg (2019) and has held academic positions at institutions including the University of Amsterdam and the London School of Economics.

• Education: PhD in Political Science (Marburg), BKO University Teaching Qualification (Groningen), Middle East Studies diploma (Cairo)

Research interests include the interplay of creativity, entrepreneurship, and neoliberal governance, with recent work analyzing spatial politics in Greece and hybrid economic practices in social economies. His book Paradoxes of Emancipation explores radical imagination in neoliberal contexts. Soudias has led projects on welfare visions and participated in advanced research institutes like the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.