Nikiforos is a Junior Research Fellow at Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology. He is pursuing a PhD on “Governance of Smart Cities” and is affiliated with the FinEst Twins Smart City project. His research interests include circular economy, smart city, commons and sustainability transitions.
Nikiforos is also a Core Member of the P2P Lab research collective. He has been involved in REFLOW, an EU H2020 project seeking resilient solutions towards a circular economy, and the Tzoumakers, an open lab for communities to cooperatively design and manufacture tools for small-scale agricultural production.
Nikiforos is a Civil Engineer and holds an Integrated MSc in Transportation and Project Management from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.