He has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University (2014-2016), a Visiting Scholar at the Program of Hellenic Studies, Columbia University (2013), and a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (2006). Dimitris’s research centers on the question of socio-cultural space through anthropological, geographical and digital humanities perspectives. He works on borders and borderlands, urban, sacred and historic landscapes, and conflict and displacement in Greece, the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. His doctoral dissertation (University of the Aegean, 2012) dealt with landscape perception and experience at the borders of Greece, Albania and Macedonia. His work has appeared in various journals and as book chapters in collected volumes.