Paraschos Kanlis holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of the Aegean. His doctoral thesis, entitled "The Phenomenon of Doping. A critique of the phenomenon as a social and timeless crime in sports," focuses on the timeless and social dimensions of doping, approaching it as a form of crime in the field of sports. He holds a Master's Degree in "Research on Local, Social Development and Cohesion" from the same Department, with a thesis on "Dropout from compulsory education, work and social exclusion". He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology of the University of the Aegean, studying student dropout and school failure as criminogenic factors in the context of a critical criminology of education. He is a permanent physical education teacher and serves at the Model General Lyceum of Mytilene of the University of the Aegean.
His research interests focus on the critical analysis of phenomena in sports, issues of student dropout, school failure, social exclusion, and criminology of education. He has participated in and published in reputable scientific journals and conferences.