Spyridon Stavropoulos is a researcher at Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization (EHERO), Erasmus University Rotterdam and a candidate fellow at Tinbergen institute in the behavioural and experimental economics group. Previously, he held an assistant professor position of Urban & Regional Economics in the Department of Applied Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research interests include happiness economics, regional economic transformation and evolution, agglomeration economies, and firms’ locational behaviour. He holds a PhD with distinction from the University of Patras, an MSc in Health Economics from Erasmus University and an MSc in Methods and Statistics from Leiden University.