Thomas Sideris is a PhD holder in Human Geography, a journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. His academic, journalistic, and cinematic work focuses on the relationship between body, space, and identity; experiences of displacement; geographies of entrapment; memory; human rights; refugee and migration routes; and forms of social exclusion in urban and cross-border spaces.

He is a postdoctoral researcher at the National Centre for Social Research in Greece, in collaboration with the School of Fine Arts and Architecture at the University of Beirut and the Faculty of Fine Arts at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. His research examines the spatial inequalities produced in the West Bank and in refugee camps in Lebanon.

He holds a PhD in Human Geography from Harokopio University. His doctoral dissertation is entitled Routes of Identity: Defenceless Bodies, Fluid Spatial Realities and Conditions of Entrapment: Residential Enclaves, Homes and Shelters of Patients, Refugees, Migrants and Urban Nomads, and is available through the National Documentation Centre of Greece. He also holds a master’s degree in Human Geography from the University of the Aegean. His MA thesis was the documentary Agiou Polykarpou Street: Flows and Parallel Relations.

He studied Political Science and Public Administration at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specialising in media studies. At the same time, he attended directing courses at the Lykourgos Stavrakos Film and Television School.