2007-to date Assistant Professor (Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια), Sociology of Migration and Migration Policy, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece. Currently on unpaid leave.
Tasks: Teaches two courses on Migration theory and policy; and European migration and two courses in qualitative methods for the social sciences (introductory level and advanced). Currently supervises 2 doctoral students and one BA thesis.

2004-to date Senior Research Fellow, ELIAMEP (Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy), Athens, Greece.
Tasks: Directs the migration research team of ELIAMEP which conducts empirical and theoretical research in the wider field of migration studies. Her current projects are: MOVEACT ("All Citizens Now" Intra EU Mobility and Political Participation of English, Germans, Poles and Romanians in Western and Southern Europe), FRIM (Irregular Migrants Access to their Fundamental Rights) and Treatment of Irregular Migrants at the Borders. 

2002-to date Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Brugges, European General Studies Programme.
Tasks: Teaches an MA Course on European Migration at the European and General Studies programme.

2000-2007 Project Director (with Professor Bo Stråth) and Senior Research Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence.
Tasks: She co-ordinated the EUI research team and conducted empirical and theoretical research in the following international research projects:
Project co-ordinator with Bo Strath: IAPASIS (2000-2003) (Migration policy implementation and migrants’ strategies for survival)
Project co-ordinator with Bo Strath: EURONAT (2001-2004) (European and National Identities. Media, Elites and Civil Society’)
Team leader with Bo Strath: CITY SPACES (2002-2005) (Cultural citizenship and migrant participation to cultural policy and cultural production)
Team leader and co-coordinator of project: POLITIS (2004-07) (Immigrant civic participation across Europe)

2001-2002 Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor and Colston Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, Bristol, England (2 months).
Tasks: Gave seminars on national identity and migration and developed a book project on Multicultural Citizenship with Tariq Modood.

2001 EU-Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at New York University, Centre for European Studies, New York City (spring semester).
Tasks: Participated in an international team of researchers based at four NYC Universities (NYU, CUNY, Columbia, New School), conducted research on migration policy implementation in the USA.

1999-2000 Jean Monnet Fellow, RSCAS and European Forum, EUI, Florence.
Tasks: Participated in the European Forum on Identities, Interests and Political Representation directed by Stefano Bartolini, Thomas Risse and Bo Strath (1999-2001). Conducted research on national identity, European identity and migration, analysed media discourses in four European countries, wrote a book on Negotiating Nationhood in a Changing Europe.

1997-1999 Marie Curie Fellow, Institute of Psychology, National Research Council (CNR), Rome.
Tasks: Conducted empirical and theoretical research on national identity and migration, finished a book on Migration and National Identity in Europe, supervised two graduate research assistants.

1995-1997 T H Marshall Fellow in Sociology, department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Politics, London.
Tasks: Conducted research on nationalism, xenophobia and racism, conducted an MA and a PhD seminar replacing Professor Anthony D. Smith who was on sabbatical, participated in the Nations and Nationalism Research Group initially at the dept of sociology and later at the European Institute of the LSE. She has remained since then actively involved in ASEN (Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism).

1994-1995 Research Fellow, department of Sociology, University of Surrey Guildford, England (spring semester).
Tasks: Conducted empirical and theoretical research in Brussels mainly on environmental policy making, wrote reports and participated at project meetings.

1994-1995 Stagiaire, Secretary General of the European Commission, Brussels (winter semester).
Tasks: Research and administrative support.

1992-1994 Research Associate, to Professor Klaus Eder, department of Social and Political Sciences, EUI, Florence.
Tasks: Conducted research on environmentalist cultures in Europe, wrote reports, participated at project meetings.

ELIAMEP (Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou and Ms Marina Nikolova) have become the national coordinators for Greece at the EU Integration Web Site. The EU integration web site development project is coordinated by the Migration Policy Group (MPG) in Brussels.

Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou has also been appointed the Greek SOPEMI Correspondent at the OECD, for the International Migration Outlook

Her earlier research projects at ELIAMEP include:
Coordinator with Dia Anagnostou: EUROREG (Minorities, EU policies and regional development) (2004-07),
Co-coordinator: POLITIS (active immigrant civic participation in the EU) (2004-07),
Team leader and co-coordinator: EMEDIATE (2004-07) (European public sphere and international crises in the media);
Co-ordinator: MIGSYS (migration policies, migrants and migration systems) (2006-07),
Co-ordinator: EMILIE (legal, political and education challenges related to cultural diversity in Europe) (2006-09),
Team leader: IDEA (migration policy in Europe) (2007-09)
Co-ordinator: CLANDESTINO (irregular migration in Europe) (2007-09).