Dimitris Panagiotopoulos studied History at the Department of History and Archeology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens. In 2003 he was awarded a doctorate by the Department of History of the Ionian University. He is the Director of the Documentation Center for the History of Greek Agriculture of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens. He was an Alternate Member of the Ephorate of General State Archives, while since 2009 he has been teaching the course “Greek State and Society in the 19th and 20th Century” in the Postgraduate Program “Historical Research, Teaching and New Technologies” of the Department of History of the Ionian University. He is the author of three books and several related articles in Greek and English. His latest book entitled: Petros Kanaginis. His contribution to the remodeling of the rural environment in the interwar period was released in 2013 by the publications of the Bookstore of Hestia.

His research interests include the history of Greek agriculture and agricultural development, as well as the political, economic and social organization of the modern Greek state and the rural area in the 19th and 20th centuries. Also, the formation and development of higher education and the scientific and academic elites in the 19th and 20th centuries.