He was previously Lecturer at the University of London (Goldsmiths College) and Director of the “Centre For Empirically Informed Social Theory” (CEIST) at the University of Portsmouth. Michalis works on an empirically informed theory of socio-economic and socio-cultural transition in late modernity. He co-ordinated the European project “Uncertainty and Insecurity in Europe” and co-directs the European Observatory on Liberty and Security at the Paris Institute of Political Science. Michalis is also main partner on the ‘Integrated’ European Project «The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security» which involves 21 universities and jointly in charge of the conceptual framework of the ‘Integrated’ European Project «A Micro Level Analysis of Violent Conflict» in which 22 universities conduct 28 projects in 50 countries.

Michalis’s publications include

• a special section for Sociological Research Online Pierre Bourdieu: A Critical Tribute in Times of Uncertainty (ed. 2007 ; contributions by Jean-Claude Passeron, Eric Hobsbawm,  Alice Sullivan, Marco Verweij, Christian Papilloud, Nicos Mouzelis, Mary Douglas, William Outhwaite)
• Energy and Risk: Social Uncertainty and Global Risks, in Brendan Dooley (ed.), Energy and Culture: Perspectives on the Power to Work, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006
• Social Control after Foucault, Surveillance and Society, vol. 1, no 3, 2003 (also in French Le contrôle social après Foucault)
• Deleuze, Foucault et le contrôle social, Mana, vol. 12-13, avril 2005
• Risk and Power: The Challenge of Depoliticising Centro di Ricerca sulle Istituzioni Europee & Elio Sellino, Naples, 2004; Le nouveau contrôle social (L’Harmattan - Logiques Sociales, Paris, 2001), recently translated into Italian
• Safety, Deviance and Control: The Postindustrial Transition from Values to Results, Sciences Sociales et Entreprises, Vol.1,  no 3, janvier 2001
• with Mary Douglas, Dangerization and the End of Deviance, The British Journal of Criminology 40:261-278 (2000), also in Garland & Sparks, Criminology and Social Theory, Oxford University Press (2000), (revised French translation: Danger et régression du contrôle social : des valeurs aux processus, Déviance et société, Vol. 25,  no 2, 2001
• Point de vue sur l’acceptabilité sociale du discours du risque, Les Cahiers de la Sécurité Intérieure, IHESI, Vol. « Risque et démocratie » n° 38, 1999.

Michalis is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the University of Portsmouth and associated researcher to the Maurice Halbwachs Research Centre at the French National Research Institute (CNRS), the French National School of the Social Sciences (EHESS), the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris (ENS) and the University of Caen. He organised the conferences «Insecurity and Otherness» in May 2007 and « Withstanding Influence: Academic Independence and its Discontents