PD Dr. Adamantios Th. Skordos

Adamantios Theodor Skordos was born in Bludenz, Austria. He studied German, German literature and German as a foreign language in Thessaloniki and Graz. He graduated with a diploma in German and Philology (2001) before pursuing a postgraduate degree in »European Studies« at the University of Leipzig. For his Master's Degree in European Studies he wrote a  thesis on the Pomak minority in Greece. He was then a doctoral student at the Institute of Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Leipzig within the international doctoral programme »Transnationalization and Regionalization from the 18^th Century to the Present« at the Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Leipzig. In December 2009, he received his PhD from the University of Leipzig with a thesis on the influence of the Greek Civil War on the Macedonian name dispute of the early 1990s. In July 2018, he was awarded his habilitation at the University of Leipzig with the thesis on the impact of Southeast European conflicts on the development of international law in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.
From 11/2007 to 11/2010, he was Researcher at the Institute for Slavic Studies and the Global and European Studies Institute of the University of Leipzig. He worked on the implementation and coordination of a DFG-funded project: »Greece and the Macedonian Question (1944-1995). Memory Culture, Politics of History and National Public Spheres in Southeastern Europe«. From 11/2010 to 08/2011 he was Researcher at the GWZO, within the project group »Post-Panslavism«. From 09/2011 to 07/2014, he was Researcher at the Institute for Byzantine and Greek Studies at the University of Vienna; and from 06/2012 to 12/2014 collaborating on the research project »Austria's relations with the authoritarian regimes of Southern Europe after 1945: Spain, Portugal, Greece« (funded by the Future Fund of the Republic of Austria).

He has been a researcher at the GWZO since 08/2014 .

• History of Europe in the 19^th and 20^th centuries in a global context
• South and Southeast European history
• Memory culture and the politics of history
• History of international law

Member of the editorial board of Copernico. History and Culture in Eastern Europe [Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa]

• Doctoral Award of the Research Academy Leipzig
• Doctoral Award of the Southeast Europe Society [Südosteuropa Gesellschaft]

As Senior Lecturer, Adamantios Theodor Skordos holds regular lectures at the Global and European Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig.