Georgia Alexandri

Dr. Georgia Alexandri is a Scientific Associate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), working within the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) and the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change research group. Her work bridges academic research with policy implications, focusing on critical urban issues in the Mediterranean context.

Her research centers on housing financialization, gentrification, and sustainable urban transitions, with particular expertise in the Greek urban context. Alexandri employs qualitative research methods and comparative urban analysis to examine how global financial forces reshape local housing markets, particularly in cities experiencing economic crisis. Her work reveals complex state-investor relations and path-dependent trajectories of housing financialization that challenge simplistic narratives about urban restructuring.

Her publication record demonstrates consistent engagement with high-impact journals in urban studies, with recent work analyzing the nuanced role of the state in housing financialization across Athens and Barcelona. Her research shows how local contexts shape financialization processes, revealing that institutional settings prioritizing social policies can influence investor strategies even within constrained regulatory environments.

Alexandri has developed significant expertise through postdoctoral positions at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (Germany), University of Leeds (UK), and Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), building on earlier work at Greece's National Centre for Social Research. Her current research examines the housing-energy nexus and climate finance mechanisms within urban contexts.