Giorgos Antoniou
Assistant Professor in the History of Jewish Communities at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Georgios Antoniou received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 2007. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (2007) and served as a visiting lecturer at Yale University (2008) and the University of Cyprus (2009). Since 2015, he has held the Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies, and in 2019 he joined the Department of History and Archaeology. In the same year, he was appointed holder and visiting professor of the World War II Chair at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
Since 2018, he has been a member of the Education Working Group of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). In 2018, Cambridge University Press published the volume The Holocaust in Greece, which he co-edited with Dirk Moses. He currently serves as the principal investigator for Greece in the Horizon 2020 projects REPAST (www.repast.eu), which examines the role of the past in contemporary societies, and EHRI (https://www.ehri-project.eu/), a project dedicated to developing digital infrastructures for Holocaust archives in Europe.