He received his BA from the Department of History, Ionian University (Corfu) in 1996. In 2000 he got an MA degree in Nationalism and Identity from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL). In May 2004 he completed his PhD course at the University of London. He has taught modern history at the Faculty of Balkan Studies, University of Western Macedonia (Florina), and the Faculty of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina. In April 2008 he completed his Postgraduate course at the Faculty of History, Ionian University (Corfu). In September 2009 he became a Lecturer in Modern Greek History at the Department of History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, University of Athens. In March 2015, he has been upgraded to the rank of the Assistant Professor. His regular courses are: 19th and 20th century history of Central and Eastern Europe (II 112); Ethnic Symbiosis and Minorities in Greece and the Balkans (ΣΙ 135); Modern Greek History, 15th and 20th century (II 20); Modern Greece in the Inter-war Period, 1922-40: Social History and Political Institutions (post-graduate seminar 1043). His main research interests include the historical sociology of Greek nationalism; Greco-Bulgarian relations; ethnic symbiosis and minorities in the Balkans; political and social history of inter-war Greece.