We are pleased to announce the appointment of the A.G. Leventis Research Officer at SEESOX. Foteini Kalantzi joined SEESOX in March 2018 for a period of eighteen months. She received her PhD in International Relations from University of Macedonia, Greece and carried out part of her research in Freie Universitaet Berlin. She holds an MA in International Political Economy from University of Warwick, UK, a BA in International and European Relations from Panteion University, Athens and a BSc in Economics from University of La Verne, California. She has been a research associate at the Hellenic Centre for European Studies (EKEM) and at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). She also worked as a teaching fellow at the Department of International Relations of Université de Strasbourg at City Unity College in Athens. Her research interests include migration, the security-migration nexus, political and media discourse analysis, Greek political affairs and European integration. Dr. Kalantzi will engage in research on the Greek state-diaspora relationship in the context of the economic crisis and also in the development of the Diaspora Map for the Greek Diaspora Project.