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.
Georgia Petraki
Georgia Petraki is Professor of sociology at Panteion University of Political and Social Science, Department of Social Policy (Athens). She holds a Ph. D. in Sociology of Work from l’ Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She was associate researcher of INE-GSEE (Institute of General Confederation of Labour) from 1993 to 1999. She has participated in research on work organization-technological changes-labour market and social stratification. She teaches courses of qualitative methodology, sociology of labour and social stratification. She has published 4 books on labour and several articles about segregation in labor market, work organization, class structure. She has participated in European Framework Programs (FP6, FP7). She coordinates the Greek team in WORKS, Integrated Project (CIT3-CT-2005-006193) and edited the book entitled “The Global Restructuring of Work Organisation”. She coordinates the Greek team in RESCuE Project (FP7 Topic 5.1-1: Citizens’ resilience in times of crisis: RESCuE: Patterns of Resilience during Socioeconomic Crises among Households in Europe coordinator: PD Dr. Markus Promberger IAB, Germany). Her main research interests include work organization, work conditions, social stratification and the new forms of social relations.
She has been the Director of Centre for Gender Studies during the period 2015-2021.