Dimitrios Kosmopoulos holds a PhD in Political Science from the Paris-Dauphine University-PSL. He was in winter semester 2019/2020 a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies of the University of Graz. His doctoral research focuses on the political upheaval in Greece between 2010 and 2014, a period marked by economic crisis and the implementation of structural and economic adjustment programs. His research interests include the study of party systems and political crisis, the sociology of political parties and political elites, and European politics in a comparative perspective.