MsAikaterini Orfanidi

Katerina is a research associate at University College Dublin, Sutherland School of Law. She works on the ERC-funded 'RIGHTS TO UNITE' project led by Professor Dagmar Schiek. Katerina completed her PhD Thesis on 'The constitutive role of EU law in shaping precarious work - Lessons from the operation of three directives' at the European University Institute, in Florence. She studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and she holds an MJur from the University of Oxford, as well as an LLM in Comparative, European and International Laws from the European University Institute. Before starting her PhD, Katerina worked as a lawyer in Athens, Greece.

Katerina's research interests include EU and comparative labour law, EU social and fundamental rights, as well as broader issues of inequalities and social justice in modern societies.