Achilleas Fotakis studied law at the Law School of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.) and took his masters in Human Rights at Birkbeck Law School (University of London). In 2016 he graduated from the Pedagogical Department of the School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, and finished his PhD in the History and Archeology Department (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), where from 2020 he started postdoctoral research. From 2021 he started his second postdoctoral research in the Social Anthropology and History Department in the University of the Aegean and from the Spring semester of 2022 he teaches the courses «History Teaching» (H-287) and «Special Issues in History Teaching and Ideology» (W/S-086) in the same department. His research interests include history of policing, history of sexual(ized) crimes, Jewish and Armenian history, anti-Semitism, historiography and theory of history.