Efi Adamopoulou is Deputy Head of ZEW's (Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research) Inequality and Public Policy group. She is also affiliated with the University of Mannheim as a member of the Bonn-Mannheim Collaborative Research Center TR 224 funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). 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 explores inequality through both micro and macroeconomic lenses, focusing on how labour market institutions, household dynamics, and social interactions shape economic disparities. 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 was a member of the Greek National Minimum Wage Experts Committee from 2022 to 2025.