Appointment & Affiliations
European Commission DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) 2023 DG GROW Fellow Economist
Member of the Scientific Committee for Smart Specialisation Strategies for Sustainability (S4) Methodology Development, European Commission Joint Research Centre (2022-2023)
Invited expert at Expert Workshop on methods and scenario building Challenges for cohesion: looking ahead to 2035, 24, April 2023, WIIW and DG Regio, Brussels
Referee for journals Frontiers in Research Metrics & Analytics, Empirica, Global Policy, European Urban and Regional Studies, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Social Studies of Science, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Science and Public Policy, Economic Systems, Telecommunication Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Technovation, Current Politics and Economics of Europe, Transnational Corporations, R&D Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Acta Oeconomica, Cambridge Journal of Economics, International Journal of Biotechnology, International Regional Science Review, Journal of Black Sea Studies, International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development (IJTLID, European Urban and Regional Studies, Journal of Technology Transfer, Post-Communist Studies, Research Evaluation, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Slovo, Science, Technology, & Human Values, Slavic Review, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, International Journal of Economies and Institution, Industry and Innovation, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, Journal of Baltic Studies, International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Journal of Industry Competition and Trade, European Policy Analysis, Regional Studies, Slavonic and East European Review, European Journal of Development Research, Cambridge Journal of Economics, ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography
Member of the Expert Advisory Committee for the OECD project Enhancing Innovation in Rural Areas
Peer reviewer for National Research Council of Mexico, Research Foundation Flanders’ (FWO), Hellenic Foundation for Basic Research (HFBR), UK Economic and Social Research Council, US National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, British Academy, Slovenian Research Agency, Nuffield Foundation, Edward Elgar, Routledge, Macmillan, Kluwer Publishers, UNCTAD, Estonian Science Foundation, Norway Research Council, AXA Research Fund, Imperial College Press
Member of Scientific Advisory Group of ‘Pilot actions on Industrial Transition and Interregional Cooperation’ by the EC DG Regional and Urban Policy, 2019-2021
Member of the Strategic Advisory Forum of the ESPON European Territorial Reference Framework (ETRF) project which is one of inputs into the intergovernmental process preparing a new Territorial Agenda for Europe post-2020 (TA2020+), 2018-2019
Expert advisor for the EC funded study: Towards better monitoring innovation strengths, regional specialisation and business trends in support of industrial modernisation in the EU, 2018 coordinated by the IDEA Consult
Member of Steering Committee on a new Advanced Technologies and Industrial Modernisation Monitor study coordinated by Technopolis Belgium, EC, 2019
Special Advisor of the European Commission Regional Commissioner 2015
Visiting Professor at the Higher School of Economics St Petersburg 2017
Member of International Advisory Board of Higher School of Economics St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management, 2017
Independent expert of European Parliament (2017)
European Science Foundation, Member of College of Expert Reviewers (2016-2019)
Scientific Committee member of Journal ‘Innovation and Development’
Member of the Committee on Tenure at Greek university system in the area of economics of technological change (since 2016)
Member of Scientific Advisory Committee of the H2020 project I3U (2016-2018)
Territorial Reference Framework for Europe, Member of Strategic Advisory Forum (2018-2019)
Fellow, UCL European Institute
Research director, UCL Centre for Comparative Study of Emerging Economies (2015-2019)
Research Professor at Halle Institute for Economic Research, Halle, Germany (2014-2015)
Member of Management Committee of ERAWatch Network asbl, 2000-2012
Member of Scientific Committee of GLOBELICS (The Global Network for The Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems) conferences 2007 (Saratov), 2008 (Mexico City), 2009 (Dakar) and 2010 (Kuala Lumpur), 2015 (Havana)