Dr. mr. Vassilis Dafnomilis is an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam and the academic coordinator of the Adv. LLM in International Tax Law. He is the course coordinator of the Foundations of International Tax Law, International Tax Law Moot Court and Master's Thesis International Tax Law courses of the Adv. LLM in International Tax Law. He is also a co-coordinator of the EU Tax Law course.

Vassilis's research and teaching focuses on international and European tax law as well as international estate and gift taxation, to both international and Dutch students. Vassilis is teaching in the Foundations of International Tax Law, Tax Treaties I, EU tax law, EU tax law (advanced) and International Moot Court courses of the Adv. LLM. In addition, he is teaching at the Dutch course Europees Belastingrecht, direct. 

Vassilis was nominated as Teacher of the Year at the Faculty of Law in 2022. 

Vassilis is also working as a manager at the Knowledge Centre of PwC the Netherlands. 

Vassilis received a bachelor’s degree in law with honors from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2012 and two master’s degrees in European Law (University of Athens - 2013) and in European Tax Law (Leiden University - 2015). In June 2021, he defended his doctoral thesis "Taxation of cross-border inheritances and donations. Suggestions for improvement" at Leiden University.