Alexandros Kioupkiolis is a professor of contemporary political theory at Aristotle University. He has studied Classical Philology (University of Athens) and Contemporary Political Theory (MA, Essex University; DPhil, Oxford University). His research interests focus on radical democracy, the commons, social movements, and the philosophy of freedom. He was the principal investigator and lead researcher of the ERC-funded project Heteropolitics, 2017–2020 (heteropolitics.net) which was dedicated to the above themes of research and has published numerous books and articles on related topics, including the monographs The Common and Counter-hegemonic Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Το Πολιτικό. Σύγχρονοι Στοχασμοί (Erma Publications, 2021), and Common Hegemony, Populism, and the New Municipalism: Democratic Alter-Politics and Transformative Strategies (Routledge, 2022).