Dimitris Kollias

Dimitris Kollias is a Research Fellow in the European Policies and Institutions Department at ELIAMEP. His work focuses on space geopolitics, great-power competition, high strategy and strategic foresight. He examines the EU’s strategic autonomy, orbital infrastructures and dual-use technologies, and evolving norms that shape strategic positioning and cross-domain deterrence, with a dedicated focus on the outer space domain and a regional emphasis on the Arctic and the Eastern Mediterranean.

He is a Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Greece & Cyprus scholarship alumnus and previously administered the “Ariane Condellis” European Programme (2024–2025). Dimitris studied at Durham University, the University of Macedonia and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is trained in international relations studies, European political history, international law, defence and development, and political philosophy and anthropology. His academic work also engages with the international-relations dimension of ancient Greek thought.

He was selected among the “50 Future Think Tank Leaders” at the 2025 Next Milan Forum and has addressed the Parliamentary Assembly – Union for the Mediterranean as a youth representative from the region. He has worked with national and transnational organisations in Greece and the UK and regularly writes for Greek newspapers, as well as international media and policy outlets.