Dimitris Soudias is an affiliated researcher at the Chair Group European Culture and Literature (University of Groningen), and Principal Investigator of the research project Welfare Visions 2.0: Future-Making Practices in the Social Economies of Athens and Berlin (WELFAIR) (University of Kassel), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His research builds on political sociology and cultural economy approaches to study such issues as creativity, happiness, social innovation and entrepreneurship in neoliberalism.