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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

Elia Apostolopoulou is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Environmental Policy, at Imperial College London. She is a human geographer and political ecologist whose research focuses on three core themes: first, the transformative impact of infrastructure projects on spaces, socionatures, and livelihoods; second, the disproportionate effects of these processes on communities based on class, gender, and ethnicity; and third, the potential of community struggles to promote social-environmental sustainability and justice.

Between 2012 and 2022, Elia held postdoctoral and lectureship positions primarily at the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, as well as at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford (2016-2017). She has also been a visiting academic at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at City University of New York and a Carson Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. From 2022 to 2024, she has been based at ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Elia has won several prestigious international fellowships and grants, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, a Carson Fellowship, a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship, and funding from the EU, British Academy, Cambridge Arts Humanities & Social Sciences, and the Royal Geographical Society. She also serves as an editor for Dialogues in Human Geography since 2020.

Elia Apostolopoulou
Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership