Giorgios Katsambekis studied Political Science at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he also received his MA degree in Political Analysis in autumn 2009. He is a PhD candidate at the School of Political Sciences of the same university. His research focuses on contemporary political theory (with an emphasis on post-structuralist/post-marxist approaches) and discourse analysis, studying, more specifically, populism, democracy and social movements in contemporary Greece.