Sofia is a Wellcome Trust ISSF fellow at the University of Manchester for the project Viro-populism”: How far-right populists spread fake-news on COVID-19 across Europe. She recently completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at the University of Manchester for the project Russian Nationalism and the Ukraine Crisis: The Impact of Nationalist Actors on Russian Foreign Policy (RUSNAT). She has an interdisciplinary background with a B.A. in Economics from the University of Piraeus, an M.A. in European Studies from the European University Viadrina, and an M.Phil. and PhD in International Relations from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Sofia researches nationalism, populism and far-right mobilization using ethnographic and mixed methods. Her research interests lie within the fields of international relations, with a focus on how non-state actors influence foreign-policy, comparative politics, with an area study focus on Russia and Greece, and social movement studies. Her work has been published in Europe-Asia Studies, European Societies, Demokratizatsiya and Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals. Her first monograph, Nationalist Opposition in Putin’s Russia, is under contract with Manchester University Press.