Dimitris Dimitropoulos was born in Athens in 1962. He graduated from the Historical and Archaeological Department of the Philosophical Faculty of University of Athens in 1987, where in 1996 he also defended his doctoral thesis. Dimitropoulos has been working at the Institute for Neohellenic Research of National Hellenic Research Foundation (INR/NHRF) since 1992, at the start as scholarship recipient and now as Senior Research Associate in the section Economic and Social History of the Programme "Historical study of Settlements in Greece, 15th - 20th c.". He has participated in the transcription and publication of the "Archive of Ali Pasha", kept at the Gennadeios library - a project directed by Prof. Vasilis Panagiotopoulos. His research has mainly dealt with the study of settlements and populations of the Greek lands under the rule of Ottomans, the institutions, the social constitution and the economy of island societies of the Aegean from 16th to the early 19th century. Dimitropoulos has participated in several research programmes in collaboration with other academic institutions. He has successfully conducted a number of INR-based projects including the making of data bases, the transcription of documents dated from the 18th and 19th century, the classification of archives and the compilation of bibliographies on the modern political history of Greece. H has participated in various scholarly societies, he has published books and articles in academic journals and edited volumes, and presented papers in various Greek and international scientific congresses.