Alex is a director of Mandrake.ATM and an independent scholar from Sydney, Australia. He has worked as a freelance political commentator for Nova Makedonija (Skopje), Republika (Skopje) and Australian-Macedonian Weekly (Melbourne), a cultural critic for M'zin (Ljubljana) and Lik (Skopje), and a research fellow at the National Centre for HIV Social Research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He has a BA in political science and international relations from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (obtained in 1992), and a PhD in political science and international relations from the Australian National University in Canberra (obtained in 1998).

His main research interests are: the interface between gender, ethnicity, class and sexuality; queer ethnography; queer theory; and the history, anthropology and sociology of emotions. He has published in Sextures, Sexualities, Social Semiotics, International Journal for Critical Psychology, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly (GLQ), Journal of Homosexuality, Borderlands, Balkan Forum, Arshin, Dijalog and others. He is a joint author of a research monograph titled Living as Men - Masculinities in Contemporary Urban Australia (Sydney: NCHSR, 2001), and an author of book chapters published in R. Kulpa and J. Mizielinska  (eds.), De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Surrey: Ashgate, 2011), K. Plummer (ed.), Sexualities: Critical Concepts in Sociology (London: Routledge, 2002), and M. Kostova, S. Perry and B. Kunovski (eds.), Here Comes the Rain Again: the World about Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain (Skopje: Museum for Contemporary Art, 2004). He has published essays on Macedonian and Australian masculinities, ethnic politics, the gay imaginary, Macedonian foreign policy and civil society, Balkan and Australian sexualities, postindustrial theatre, postmodern culture, narration an national identities, and social inclusion.