Efi Adamopoulou is a researcher at ZEW and at the University of Mannheim. Previously, she was a (tenured) economist at the Bank of Italy and an external lecturer at EBS.

She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2013. Her research focuses on labour economics and applied micro-econometrics. She has conducted research on wage determination, household decision-making, consumption, and education using both survey and social security data.

Efi joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in July 2016 and became a Research Fellow in November 2021. She has been a member of the Greek National Minimum Wage Experts Committee since 2022.