• 1991-1996: Diploma in Engineering, School of Rural and Surveying Engineers of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
• 1997-2004: PhD in Economic Geography and Regional Development School of Rural and Surveying Engineers of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
• 2012-2015: Post-doc scholarship for “The ‘Southern EU Flexicurity’ project”, joint affiliation, Hellenic Open University, Greece and University of Georgia, USA.

• Labour Geography, Flexible and atypical employment, Uneven regional development

• 2018-2022: A Place for Youth in Mediterranean EEA: Resilient and Sharing Economies for NEETs (YOUTHShare) - Project Manager and Principal Investigator
• 2015-2016: ‘‘Participatory Action Research to Address Un-Under-Employment at the local level'' - Scientific Coordinator
• 2012-2015: ‘‘The “Southern Flexicurity” project: Flexicurity and spatial divisions of atypical employment in local labour markets of the Southern European Union’ - Post-doctoral researcher
• 2010-2014: The “Hydromentor” project: Development of an integrated system for the monitoring and management of the quality and quantity of water resources in agricultural water basins under climate change: Implementation in the Lake Karla basin - Researcher

• Economic Geography and Regional Development
• Regional Geography and Development
• Special topics in Economic Geography
• Labour Geography and Restructuring
• GIS applications in Urban Geography and Regional Development (post-graduate)

Books

1. Gialis, S., Herod, A., 2015. Labor Geography. [ebook] Athens:Hellenic Academic Libraries Link. Available Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/11419/4073

Chapters in Books (peer reviewed)

1. Gialis S. (2014) “Recession and atypical employment: a focus on contemporary Greek metropolitan regions” in S. Mavroudeas (ed.) Greek Capitalism in Crisis: Marxist Analyses, Routledge, London, pp. 212-231.

Chapters in Books (not peer reviewed)

1. Leontidou, L., Afouxenidis, A., Gialis, S., and Stringli, A. (2013) “Persisting digital society territorial divides”. In R. Gonzalez (Ed.) European regions in the strategy to emerge from the crisis (pp. 101-117). Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

Journal Publications (peer reviewed)

1. Five (5) recent in peer-reviewed journals: Gourzis K., and Gialis, S. (2019) Dismantled spatial fixes in the aftermath of recession: Capital switching and labor underutilization in the Greek capital metropolitan region. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (in print, doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12734).

2. Gialis, S., & Taylor, M. (2016) A Regional Account of Flexibilization Across the EU: The ‘Flexible Contractual Arrangements’ Composite Index and the Impact of Recession. Social Indicators Research, 128:3,1121–1146, (doi:10.1007/s11205-015-1072-9).

3. Gourzis, K., Herod, A., & Gialis, S. (2019). Linking gentrification and labour market precarity in the contemporary city: A critical framework for analysis. Antipode, (in print, DOI: 10.1111/anti.12544).

4. Gialis S. and L. Leontidou (2014), “Antinomies of flexibilization and atypical employment in Mediterranean Europe: Regions of Greece, Italy and Spain during the crisis”, European Urban and Regional Studies (doi:10.1177/0969776414538983).

5. Grekousis G, and S. Gialis (2018) More Flexible Yet Less Developed? Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Labor Flexibilization and Gross Domestic Product in Crisis-Hit European Union Regions. Social Indicators Research. 2018:1-20 (doi: 10.1007/s11205-018-1994-0).

Conference Publications (peer reviewed)

1. Five (5) recent publications: Gialis, S., Fafoutis, C., Mylopoulos, N. and A. Loukas (2015) ‘‘Think about new agricultural practices, drain Lake Karla’: socio-economic insufficiencies of a lake restoration project in Thessaly, Greece’, 9th World Congress of the European Water Resources Association, ‘Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities’, June 10-13, Istanbul, Turkey

2. Gialis S., Mavroudeas S. and K. Gourzis (2015) Atypical and irregular employment in Southern EU cities: resurgence of an industrial reserve army? 33rd International Labour Process Conference, Athens, Greece, 13-15 April, 2015.

3. Gialis S. and C. Laspidou (2014) Lake Karla and the contradictory character of Greek Environmental Policies: a brief historical overview. IWA Regional Symposium on Water, Wastewater and Environment: 22-24 March 2014, Traditions and Culture. Patras, Greece, pp. 1057-1067, ISBN: 97 8-960-538-921 -5.

4. Gialis, S., Leontidou, L., & Taylor, M. (2014). Composite indicators of flexibilization across EU regions: a critical re-appraisal and interpretation. In ERSA conference papers (No. ersa14p513). European Regional Science Association, November 2014, St. Petersburg.

5. Gialis, S. (2013) “Flexicurity in the European South: towards a typology of atypical employment’s expansion across cities and regions” 14th Mediterranean Research Meeting (MRM), European University Institute, Mersin, Turkey, March 20-23.

Conference Publications (not peer reviewed)

1. Five (5) recent presentations: Gialis, S. (2015) ‘Νeither 'rigid' nor 'flexicure': capital devaluation, uneven development and the crisis of Southern European labour markets’. The ‘Geographies of work and uneven development in Europe during the crisis’ Seminar/one-day Conference, April 30th, Athens.

2. Gialis, S. and Taylor, M. (2015) ‘Composite indicators of flexibilization and the crisis: facts and myths based on regional labour market data’. 55th Conference of the European Regional Science Association, ‘World Renaissance: Changing roles for people and places’, 25-29 August 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.

3. Leontidou, L., Gialis, S. and A. Herod (2015) ‘Strawberry pickers, precarious labour and Labour Geography: studying the agency of immigrant workers against informal working arrangements in Greece’, The 2015 International Geographical Union (IGU) Regional Conference “GEOGRAPHY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY FOR OUR FUTURE EARTH” August 16-21, Moscow

4. Gialis S., L. Leontidou and A. Herod (2013) “Atypical and Informal Employment in Southern European Union Regions: Agency and “Anti-Recession” Measures”, The 35th Annual North American Labor History Conference, October 24-26, McGregor Conference Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.

5. Gialis S., L. Leontidou and A. Herod (2013) “‘Flexicurity’ politics and crisis in Southern EU member states and the Greek regions: critical theoretical arguments and empirical data on who bears the burden of devaluation”, International Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 9-13.

Dissertations

1. Thesis entitled “Spatial and sector-based characteristics of atypical work: labour and productive flexibility in the industry of Thessaloniki” (in Greek, pages 377), School of Rural and Surveying Engineers of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, available in http://thesis.ekt.gr/thesisBookReader/id/14754#page/1/mode/2up.