Professor of Labour and Social Security Law. Faculty of Law - Donostia. UPV/EHU.

• Email: olga.fotinopulos@ehu.eus
• ORCID: 0000-0002-0395-9933

Olga Fotinopoulou Basurko is a Professor of Labour Law and Social Security at the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), with four six-year periods of research (the last one in 2024) and one six-year period of transfer (2018) recognised.  

She holds a degree in Law (1998) and Philosophy (2010) from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and received her PhD in 2004 with honours and a special award. She has published, among other works, a total of six monographs as sole author, 87 book chapters and 100 articles in specialist journals, as well as having edited and coordinated 21 collective works. 

Her books are published by top-ranked publishers in the Scholarly Publishers Indicators (SPI), and her articles are published in indexed journals, as well as in international journals and publishers. She has received 291 citations and has an h8 index (Google Scholar). She has also carried out various research stays at the University of Nantes (France); the Scandinavian Maritime Law Institute (Oslo, Norway); KU Leuven University (Belgium); and Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland).

She has been the principal investigator (PI) for a total of 19 research projects in European, national and regional calls for proposals from 2006 to the present. She is currently the PI for a project coordinated by Mineco PID2021-124045NB-C3 entitled: ‘The legal regime of transition law and its impact on the labour rights of workers at sea and on the oceans’ (“El Régimen jurídico del Transition Law y su impacto sobre los derechos laborales de los trabajadores en mares y océanos”).

She has spent a big period of her professional life on knowledge transfer, having been the principal investigator for 29 transfer contracts under Article 83 of the LOU. She has made a total of 120 interventions at national and international conferences, workshops and seminars. She is an evaluator for the European Research Council (ERC), the Institut Universitaire Français (IUF) and the ANEP (National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective Studies). She is a member of various scientific councils/journal editorial boards and an external consultant for the International Labour Organization (ILO-OIT). She has made reports for public bodies and private companies and is an external expert for PRECO in the Basque Country Labour Relations Council.

In terms of training, she has supervised three doctoral theses to date and is currently supervising another three thesis reports related to the group's lines of research.