The Centre is directed by Maria Karamessini, Professor of Labour Economics and Economics of the Welfare State
The Centre’s human resources consist of scientific coordinators and researchers on the projects that the Centre implements.
Carolin Philipp
Dr Carolin Philipp is a political and education scientist, based in Athens and Berlin. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Kassel deadling with the historical conditions and forms of social transformation in Greece, ‘Spaces of Resistance’ (www.kobra-uni-kassel.de).
She is a member of a Berlin-based research and education collective (www.glokal.org) and focusses on mediation of historical legacies of hegemony, discrimination (gender, race, class etc.) and resistances (www.connecting-the-dots.org). Currently she is project coordinator in a glokal-project on decolonial global and local histories, funded a.o. by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation (2020-2022). Postcolonial perspectives have also been the subject of her Master Thesis that she turned into a documentary on the charity discourse and practice in contemporary Germany (www.whitecharity.de, 2011).
She has worked as scientific assistant in various research project in Greece: In the educational project Democratic Education associated with the Kapodistrian University of Athens (www.demopaideia.gr) founded by the Stavros Niarchos foundation she co-developed of an online platform for educational material and as well as educational material. She also researched on social movements in Athens in the FP7 project Mig@net Transnational Digital Networks, Migration and Gender (http://www.mignetproject.eu).