Education
MA in Public Anthropology
2022 – 2024
Boston University
Master of Urban Design
2016-2017
University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Diploma of Architect Engineer
2009-2015
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Professional
+ Research Positions
Associate
2025 – Currently
Certified Planner AICP
Opticos Design Inc.
Berkeley, California, United States
Senior Designer
Certified Planner AICP
2017 – 2023
Opticos Design Inc.
Berkeley, California, United States
Graduate Student Instructor
2017
Course:
Design + Innovation for Sustainable Cities (DISC)
University of California at Berkeley, College of Environmental Design
Research Assistant
2017
In support of Peter Bosselmann
Publication:
“Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions”, Taylor & Francis, 2018
Research Assistant
Resilient-by-Design Bay Area Challenge
2016
In support of Peter Bosselmann,
University of California at Berkeley, College of Environmental Design
Design Intern
2015-2016
Arenas Basabe Palacios
Madrid, Spain
Conferences
2025
Fragmented Green Futures
Urban Governance, Public Participation,
and the Quest for Sustainability in Limassol
Society for Applied Anthropology
2024
Fragility in Our Cities
Environmental Policies and Ecological Consciousness
in the Edge of the Mediterranean
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
2021
The Politics of Urban Development in the East Mediterranean
4th-Smart Blue City Euro-Mediterranean Conference
2021
The Auto-poesies of Urban Emergence
International Seminar on Urban Form
Articles, Writing
+ Publications
2021
Beyond Boundaries; Towards a spatial approach to otherness
Presented here
2021
Bring me There…Greece + East Mediterranean
APA International Division Summer Interplan
2020
The Politics of Urban Development in the East Mediterranean
Presented here
2020
Rethinking the Planning Practice
Presented here
2019
The Auto-poesies of Urban Emergence
ISUF, DOI 10.36158/97888929535671
2017
Incremental Change: Urban Strategies to ground-up Bayview
DOE Library, University of California at Berkeley
2015
Bringing Across the Urban Division
Doxiadis Library, National Technical University of Athens
2015
Seeking for the Cyberflaneur
About effect and meaning in the emerging urban virtual space
Doxiadis Library, National Technical University of Athens
Scholarships, Grants +
Awards
ANTH
Leventis Foundation Scholar, 2024
Leventis Foundation, Greece
ANTH
Foundation for Education and European Culture Scholar, 2024
Foundation for Education and European Culture, Greece
ANTH
Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Fellow, 2022-2024
Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, Cyprus
MUD
Professional Degree Departmental Award
College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
MUD
MUD Fellow
College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
MUD
MUD Thesis Research Awardee
College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
MUD
Summer Fellow
College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
MUD
Circus Student Winner
College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
MUD
Gerondelis Foundation Awardee
Gerondelis Foundation
M.Arch
Erasmus Scholar
Erasmus Foundation
Memberships + Contributions
2024
Mary Elizabeth Inn | Board Member
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2024
American Anthropological Association | Member
2024
European Association of Social Anthropologists | Member
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2020
Association of Critical Heritage Studies | Member
Selected to present at ACHS 2022 conference in Santiago Chile
2021
American Association of Planners | Member
Certified AICP
2018
Resilient-by-Design Bay Area Challenge | Book Contribution
Published in‘‘Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions’’, Taylor & Francis