Dr. Georgios Kolliarakis is a political scientist and works with the University of Frankfurt (Cluster of Excellence ‘Normative Orders’). His research focuses upon strategic, institutional, and organizational aspects of security, including barriers and enablers of knowledge transfer among different stakeholders in policy, academia, and society.  Georgios has been involved as principal investigator in a series of international research projects on contemporary counter-terrorism, and has published on security policies and their non-intended and non-anticipated consequences. Georgios is an external expert with a number of national ministries and international organisations, and has launched over 30 roundtables at academic and policy conferences.