Pronouns: She/her
Zoe Lefkofridi is University Professor of Politics & Gender, Diversity & Equality at the Department of Political Science at the University of Salzburg and the first holder of the Professorship of Gender Studies in the Austrian federal state of Salzburg. Zoe is the coordinator of the PUSH*BACK*LASH (Horizon Europe) consortium and the leader of the WP4 on Representation of ACTEU (Horizon Europe). She is affiliated with the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, the Salzburg Center for European Studies (SCEUS); shortly, she will be leading the newly established ATHENA- Salzburg Center for Intersectional Research. Zoe researches and teaches on democracy, diversity and equality in political participation and representation; her work appears in leading journals in the field, (e.g., Politics and Gender, Party Politics). Currently, she is editing the first encyclopedia of gender and politics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025).