Georgios Agelopoulos is an Associate Professor of Social and Political Anthropology at the School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is also a Director of the Folklife Museum and Archives of the Aristotle University and Director of the Digital Humanities Lab of the Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Agelopoulos studied sociology at Panteion University Athens and social anthropology at St. Andrews University (MPhil) and Cambridge University (PhD). His research interests focus on political anthropology, Balkan ethnography, the history of the anthropological discourse in Greece and the Balkans, the anthropology of migrants and refugees. Agelopoulos taught at Cambridge University, Panteion University Athens, Graz University Austria, Nicosia University Cyprus and at the University of Macedonia. He has been a Marie Curie Research Fellow of D.G.XII of the EU, a post-doctoral Research Affiliate at the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University, a postdoctoral fellow of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and a member of research teams supported by D.G.V of the EU, by the Greek Ministry of Education, by the 6th F.P. of the EU, by the 7th F.P. of the EU, by the Greek National Research Institute and by the Leverhulme Trust. He has supervised PhD students at Panteion University Athens, the University of Macedonia, the University of Thessaly, Université de Provence (AixMarseille I) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

From June 2017 to September 2018 Agelopoulos was appointed as Secretary General of the Greek Ministry of Education. From September 2018 to July 2019 he served at the Greek Prime Minister’s Office. In addition to his academic work, Agelopoulos is a columnist in the Greek Press focusing on issues related to identity politics, higher education, migration, social and solidarity economy.