Eleftherios Karchimakis is a lecturer and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

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Eleftherios (Lefteris) Karchimakis is a lecturer and a PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science. His research interests include the EU’s crisis-induced institutional evolution, organisational adaptation and the evolution of norms and ideas in EU governance.

Before joining the Institute, he obtained a Bachelor in Law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a Master in Political Science (cum laude) from Leiden University. His master’s thesis ‘A Theory of EU Crisis-Induced Institutional Evolution: The Effect of the Institutional Entrepreneur’ was shortlisted for the Institute’s Master thesis prize. In 2021 he was nominated for Leiden University’s student platform (LUS) teaching award.