Dr. Kostas Gourzis studied Urban Planning & Development at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (BSc) and Economic Geography at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands (MSc). His PhD was awarded from the Department of Geography of the University of the Aegean, and focused on the link between gentrification and labour market precarization in the context of Athens, Greece. He has worked as a junior and senior researcher in multiple international research projects funded by national and international institutions (including the EEA Grants). He has published in numerous international scientific journals of high impact factor including Antipode (Wiley), the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Wiley-Blackwell), European Urban and Regional Studies (SAGE), and Urban Studies (JSTOR). He is a Fulbright Alumni, he has received a long-term scholarship for his PhD from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation, and he has been awarded with the 2022 Jim Lewis Prize for the most innovative research paper of the year, and the 2015 Herta Macht Thesis Prize for the highest quality masters thesis submitted to a Dutch university in the field of Spatial Sciences.

1. Gourzis, K., Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, M., & Gialis, S. (2026). Tourism must be defended: Touristification and precarity in Greece’s two major metropolises. Tourism Geographies (submitted, under review)
2. Gourzis, K., Sermpezis, P., Psarologos, D., Papadimitriou, M., Gialis, S. (2026). Tourism Accommodation and Housing Affordability: Insight From a Geo-spatial Analysis in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece. Appl. Spatial Analysis 19, 8 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-025-09771-2
3. Gourzis, K., Psarologos, D., Papadimitriou, M., Sermpezis, P., & Gialis, S. (2026) Tourism accommodation and housing affordability: Insight from a geo-spatial analysis in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
4. Gialis S., Gourzis K., and Herod, A. (2025) Working-class property developers and the right to housing in the Greek city. Handbook of Labour Geography. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 270-283.
5. Gourzis, K., & Gialis, S. (2025). Touristification geographies in the EU during the 2010s recession: a Composite Index analysis. Social Indicators Research (Soc Indic Res). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03720-9
6. Krommyda, V., Gialis, S., Stratigea, A., (2025). Linking labour regimes and socio-ecological fixes: the low-carbon transition of electricity production in Greece, Journal of Economic Geography, 2025;, lbaf039, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf039
7. Emmanouil, E., Gourzis, K., Boukouvalas, K. and Gialis, S., (2025). Investing in human capital in the era of European Universities: A comparative analysis of skill mismatches across the regions of the ERUA countries. Open Research Europe, 3, 166.
8. Avagianou, A., Gialis, S. and Farrugia, D., (2024). Precarious Youthspaces of Work and Diverse Economies in the EU South: A Conceptualization Attempt. YOUNG, 11033088241261001.
9. Krommyda, V., Gourzis, K. and Gialis, S., (2024). Youth employment amid successive crises and the low-carbon transition: The case of Eurozone coal regions. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 25148486241250008.
10. Gourzis, K., Herod, A., Chorianopoulos, I., & Gialis, S. (2022). On the recursive relationship between gentrification and labour market precarisation: Evidence from two neighbourhoods in Athens, Greece. Urban Studies, 59(12), 2545–2564.
11. Avagianou, A., Gourzis, K., Pissourios, I. et al. Quite promising yet marginal? A comparative study of social economy in the EU South. Comp Eur Polit 20, 484–509 (2022).
12. Herod, A., Gialis, S., Psifis, S., Gourzis, K., & Mavroudeas, S. (2022). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon employment and inequality in the Mediterranean EU: An early look from a Labour Geography perspective. European Urban and Regional Studies, 29(1), 3–20. 
13. Herod, A., Gourzis, K., & Gialis, S. (2021). Inter-regional underemployment and the industrial reserve army: Precarity as a contemporary Greek drama. European Urban and Regional Studies, 28(4), 413–430.
14. Gourzis, K., Alexandridis, G., Gialis, S., Caridakis, G. (2019). Studying the Spatialities of Short-Term Rentals’ Sprawl in the Urban Fabric: The Case of Airbnb in Athens, Greece. In: MacIntyre, J., Maglogiannis, I., Iliadis, L., Pimenidis, E. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2019. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 560. Springer, Cham.
15. Gialis, S., Gourzis, K., & Underthun, A. (2018). ‘Going under-employed’: Industrial and regional effects, specialization and part-time work across recession-hit Southern European Union regions. European Urban and Regional Studies, 25(3), 300–319. 
16. Gourzis, K. and Gialis, S. (2019), Dismantled Spatial Fixes in the Aftermath of Recession: Capital Switching and Labour Underutilization in the Greek Capital Metropolitan Region. Int. J. Urban Reg. Res., 43: 741-759. 
17. Gourzis, K., Herod, A. and Gialis, S. (2019), Linking Gentrification and Labour Market Precarity in the Contemporary City: A Framework for Analysis. Antipode, 51: 1436-1455.