DrElia Apostolopoulou

I am a human geographer and a political ecologist. Between 2012 and 2022, I held postdoctoral and lectureship positions at leading academic institutions, including the Department of Geography and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge (2012-2016, 2017-2022), and the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford (2016-2017). I have also held visiting fellowships at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at City University of New York (2016) and the Rachel Carson Center at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (2017). From 2022 to 2024, I was based at ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona, as a Senior Researcher, where I co-led a new research line on planetary urban infrastructures at the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Sustainability and Justice. I have been a Fellow at both Trinity College and Churchill College at the University of Cambridge where I remain an alumna. I am currently a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Geograhical Society.

My work has been recognised through numerous prestigious fellowships and competitive research grants. These include an individual Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (awarded with a score of 98/100), the Carson Fellowship, a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship (ranking 1st in Spain with a score of 99/100), and funding from major national and European schemes, including FP7, Horizon2020, COST, the British Academy, Cambridge Arts Humanities & Social Sciences and the Royal Geographical Society.

I am also a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, at the University of Cambridge and I have been an editor for Dialogues in Human Geography since 2020.