Netrac-Nex Team Members
Manolis Patiniotis
Professor
Manolis Patiniotis is a professor in the Department of Sociology at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. From 2002 to 2021, he was a professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the same university. He is also a consultant-professor for the "European Culture" study program and a member of the Academic Supervision Committee for the Postgraduate Study Program "Science Communication" at the Hellenic Open University.
Stathis Arapostathis
Professor
Stathis Arapostathis is Professor in the History of Science and Technology, Director of the Laboratory of Science, Technology and Innovation in Society in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. He completed his DPhil in Modern History, University of Oxford. His research interests cover: the history of knowledge management and intellectual property in science and technology; the history of the relationship between science and technology; the history of energy infrastructures; the history and sociology of technology and the environment; and the history and sociology of expertise.
George N. Vlahakis
Professor
George N. Vlahakis is a professor of History of Science and Philosophy, School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University. He is Director of the M.Sc. Program “Science Communication” and of the M.A. Program “Philosophy and the Αrts”. He is member of several academic societies and organizations. He is President of the Commission for Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST, Secretary of the History of Physics Group/European Physical Society and Correspondent member of the International Academy of the History of Sciences,
Maria Zarifi
Post doctoral researcher
Maria Zarifi is a historian of science and Researcher at the Department of Sociology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She holds a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, and has been awarded fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (IOS), and the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) — all prestigious Excellence institutions. She has taught history and philosophy of science as well as modern Greek history and German–Greek relations at several universities in Greece and Germany. Author of Science, Culture and Politics: Germany’s Cultural Policy and Scientific Relations with Greece 1933–1945 (2010), she has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes. Her research focuses on the history of medicine and public health in modern times, with particular attention to scientific networks, the political and cultural instrumentalization of science, and its entanglements with nationalism, imperialism, and the broader science–politics–society nexus.
Evangelia (Lina) Chordaki
post doctoral researcher
Evangelia (Lina) Chordaki is a historian of science working at the intersection of Gender Studies, Science Studies, History of Science, and Science Communication. Her research about the Greek feminist birth control movement investigates the different forms of knowledge and expertise that move beyond the classical dichotomies between theory and practice, body and mind. Her broader research interest include the distribution of expertise during the Covid-19 pandemic; the intertwinement between gender, technoscience, and digitality/posthumanism; the relationship between masculinities, communism, and science in the Greek 20th century. She holds a Ph.D. in Science Communication and Gender Studies (2022, Hellenic Open University) that was funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. She has a M.Sc. in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (NKUA/NTUA) and a B.A. in History and Philosophy of Science (NKUA). She has previously held a postdoctoral position at the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
giannis ninos
Post doctoral researcher
Yiannis Ninos completed his studies in Film and Philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in France and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Technical University of Crete. His primary research interests include epistemology, German idealism, Marxism, social science methodology, history of science, digital studies, contemporary philosophy, and social theory. His academic work has been published in both Greek and English-language journals, with articles appearing through SAGE, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Cambridge University Press.
Eleni Tsatsaroni
PhD Candidate
Eleni Tsatsaroni is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR Demokritos. Equipped with both a Bachelor's and a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology, her academic journey and research experiences have been distinctly focused on the intersection of technology and culture, particularly within the field of digital anthropology. Her doctoral research explores the intricate relationship between scientific knowledge and social reality through the lens of posthuman theory. Positioned at the intersection of anthropology, philosophy, and informatics, her work integrates ethnographic methodologies with philosophical inquiry into contemporary technological developments. Drawing on affect theory, she investigates human-non-human relationality and the emerging forms of subjectivity shaped by these affective interactions.
iraklis vogiatzis
post doctoral researcher
Vogiatzis Iraklis holds a PhD in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Labor from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a B.Sc. in Digital Systems from the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece. He completed his M.Sc. in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the National and Technical University of Athens, Greece.
