Effrosyni Bakirtzi is working as scientific researcher at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt in Germany at the Department of Labour Law.

She has worked as scientific researcher at the K.U. Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven) in Belgium working for the European section of the Institute of Social Law, organized as the Research Unit on European Social Security (RUESS), and the European Institute of Social Security (EISS).

Mrs. Bakirtzi graduated as a lawyer from the Law School of the Faculty of Law, Economic and Political Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and then continued with postgraduate studies in International and European Law at the Department of International Studies of the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has also studied at the Law School of the University of “La Sapienza” in Rome, Italy, and the University of Johann Wolfgang Goethe and the University of Applied Studies in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. She has worked as a teaching and research assistant for several e-learning programs for undergraduate and post-graduate studies and she has practiced law in Greece working at the same time as a certified translator from English, German and Italian into Greek and vice versa with extensive experience in translating legal documents (such as certificates, contracts, court decisions, etc).

She was involved in the multidisciplinary postgraduate program Master in European Social Security at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. She is also the author of a number of publications.

Co-author of the book:
Civil status certificates with foreign elements (in Greek)

Relevant publication at the Proceedings of the 2010 EMUNI Research Souk:
Website: 2nd EMUNI Research Souk

Author of the report:
Case Studies in Merging the Administrations of Social Security Contribution and Taxation
Website: IBM report Business of Government