Evangelos Manolas was born in Naxos in 1961. In 1983 he was awarded a BA degree in Sociology (Essex University), an MA degree in International Relations (1983) (Kent at Canterbury University), and a PhD (1989) (Aberdeen University). He is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Forestry Education in the Department of Forestry and Management of Environment and Natural Resources, School of Agricultural Sciences and Forestry at Democritus University of Thrace.
At undergraduate level, he has taught at the Center for Continuing Education of the University of Aberdeen and in six departments at Democritus University of Thrace, i.e., the Pedagogical Department of Primary Education, the Department of Social Administration, the Department of History and Ethnology, the Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, the Department of Political Sciences and the Department of Agricultural Development. At postgraduate level, he has taught in several programs at Democritus University of Thrace, the University of the Aegean and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research interests include Didactics of Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Local History and Environmental Forest Education. He has published more than 150 papers in prestigious international and Greek scientific journals, in national and international conferences as well as in collective volumes. He has also edited or co-edited more than 30 collective works in Greece and abroad.
He served as President of the Organizing Committee in more than 10 conferences at national and international level and as a regular member (2006-2021) and as Vice Chairman (2018-2021) of the Research Ethics Committee at Democritus University of Thrace.
