Dr Ioannis Papadopoulos is a Greek criminologist and Supreme Court lawyer. He studied law at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, before undertaking postgraduate studies at Maastricht University, School of Law, where he completed an LL.M. in Forensics, Criminology, and Law. He subsequently obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Portsmouth, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

He actively participates in academic activities through conference presentations, panel chairing, and research dissemination. Furthermore, he has taught criminology and criminal justice at undergraduate and postgraduate levels across universities in the European Union and the United Kingdom and publishes widely on criminology and children’s rights in the migration context. His commitment to teaching excellence and professional development in higher education is also recognised through his Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

His research focuses on criminology and criminal justice, with emphasis placed on EU migration and asylum law, international children’s rights law, crimmigration, and qualitative research methods. His monograph, The Criminalisation of Unaccompanied Migrant Minors: Voices from the Detention Processes in Greece (Bristol University Press, 2023), was shortlisted for the 2024 ESC Book Award of the European Society of Criminology.

Dr Ioannis Papadopoulos is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He serves as Chair of the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Qualitative Research Methodologies and Epistemologies, and as an external reviewer for international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of criminology, migration and refugee studies.