Iakovos Michailidis serves as a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the School of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). During the academic year 2012-2013, he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus. In the academic year 2019-2020, he received a Fulbright scholarship and was a Visiting Researcher at George Washington University in the USA. That same year, he was an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford. He has worked as an Expert for the Western Balkans at the European Economic and Social Committee of the European Union. He is the Vice President of the Supervisory Council of the Greek General State Archives. He is also the head of the Research Center of the Society for Macedonian Studies and a member of many Greek and European scientific networks and organizations, such as the European thematic history network Clioh/Cliohnet. He is an honorary member of the “Parnassos” Literary Society and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Historical Museum and the Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia-Thrace