• 2000 PhD, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK

• movements of populations, asylum, refugee and migration issues, global, European and national policies on borders and migration, decision making on social, political and international issues.

• 2017-2020: RESPOND Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and beyond -
• 2017-2020: HORIZON 2020 SC6-ENG-GLOBALLY-2017 - Principal Investigator
• 2014: Migration in the North-eastern islands, Multi-insularity -

Chapters in Books

1. Petracou, E. & Iosifides, T., 2012, Geographical and Political for Borders and Migration, in Trubeta, S., (ed), Asylum and Migration Issue. Border Crossings and Studies, Athens: Papazisis, (in Greek)

2. Parsanoglou, D. & Petracou, E., 2010, Youth of immigrant descent & the city. Spatial exclusion & forms of resistance, in Giannakopoulos, K. & Giannitsiotis, G., (eds), Contested Spaces in the City. Special Perspectives on Culture, Athens: Alexandria, (in Greek)

Publications in Scientific Journals

1. Petracou, E. V., G. N. Domazakis, G. I. Papayiannis and A. N.Yannacopoulos,2018, Towards a Common European Space for Asylum, Sustainability,10(9)

2. Petracou, E., A. Xepapadeas & A. Yannacopoulos, 2017, Climate Change and environmentally induced migration across regions: Cooperative and non cooperative solutions, Homo Oeconomicus, 34 (2–3): 137–164

3. Chorianopoulos, I., Tsetsiou, I., & Petracou, E., 2014, Revisiting the EU’s social exclusion discourse: Residential segregation, Greek Roma and the participatory governance lock in. Geoforum, 55, 100-109

4. Petracou, E., 2009, New topographies of borders: Asylum policies of the EU and Detention Centres, Contemporary Issues, 107, 37-46, (in Greek),