Gerasimos Kouzelis was a professor of Epistemology and Sociology of Knowledge at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the University of Athens. He was born in Athens in 1953 and studied sociology, philosophy and political science at the Universities of Marburg and Frankfurt. He supported his PhD thesis at the University of Frankfurt in 1986.

He taught sociology and philosophy at the following universities: University of Frankfurt, University of Aegean, University of Thessaloniki, University of Athens and Panteion University. He has been invited to give lectures at the University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin), University of London, University of Cyprus and European University Cyprus, University of Instanbul (Bosphorus University), University of Tel Aviv, University of Florence, University of Frankfurt, University of Jena, University of Harvard, and at most Greek universities. Furthermore, he was a visiting research scholar at the Remarque Institute, University of New York.

He has researched and written about Critical Theory, Sociology of Knowledge, Education and Technology, Epistemology of Social Sciences, the types of power in everyday relationships, poverty and racism. He has run since 2010 twenty research programs: • Assessment of School Innovation Network • Intercultural Training of Custody Staff • Greek Language and History Learning for Migrant parents • Fundamental Rights Education in Europe (Daphne) • Training of Third Countries Citizens • Intercultural Training for Public Servants • Cooperating at the Historical Centre • Annotated Scientific Bilingual Publication of the Complete Works of Aristotle • Democratic Education

 He has published seventeen books, the most recent of which are the following:

• Kouzelis, G. and Christopoulos, D. (editors) (2012). Citizenship. Political Speech, History and Rules in Comparative Prospective, Athens: Patakis Publications.
• Kouzelis G. et al. (2013), Criminal Justice System Personnel. Education and Training. What about Fundamental Rights? A European Typology, Athens and Florence: FREE and European Commission.
• Kouzelis, G. (2014). Fascism and Democracy, Athens: Nisos Publications.