Dr Anastasia Chalkia is a Researcher (elect) at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), specialising in the Sociology of Crime. She is a sociologist and criminologist educated at Panteion University, where she completed an MA in Criminology, supported by a scholarship for academic excellence, and a PhD focusing on crime policy and punitive public attitudes, both awarded with highest honours.

Since 2018, she has taught at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the University of West Attica, the Hellenic Open University, and Panteion University. She also teaches at the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government (EKDDA/INEP) as a registered member of its core teaching staff.

Dr Chalkia serves as Deputy Representative of Greece to the European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN). Until October 2026, she served as a Special Scientist at the Greek National Commission for Human Rights (GNCHR), representing the Commission and Greece in national, European and international fora. Her institutional roles have included serving as alternate contact point for the Greek National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security and participating in working groups of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI). She has previously served as Vice-President of the Central Council for Crime Prevention and as Assistant to the President of the EUCPN during the 2014 Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Her academic record includes one monograph, six edited volumes and more than 50 scholarly publications, as well as over 70 presentations at national and international conferences. Her research interests include criminology and crime policy, cultural criminology, human rights, gender-based violence, migration and refugee studies, feminist criminology and intersectional inequalities, with a particular interest in translating research evidence into informed social policy and public debate.

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