Research Team

Theodore Arabatzis, Project Leader -Professor

Theodore Arabatzis is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a Diploma in electrical engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and an MA and a PhD in history of science from Princeton University. He has been awarded fellowships from Princeton, MIT and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He has published extensively on the history of modern physical sciences and on historical philosophy of science. His publications include Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities (University of Chicago Press, 2006). In 2017 he was awarded the IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science by the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. In September 2018 he was elected president of the European Society for the History of Science.

Aristotle Tympas, Professor

Aristotle Tympas, a specialist in the study of technology from the humanities and the social sciences, works as professor at the History and Philosophy of Science Department, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His studies combined engineering (MSc, Aristotelio University, 1989), policy (MSc, Georgia Tech, 1995) and history-sociology (PhD, Georgia Tech, 2001). He has taught courses at his university (at his home department and at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications) He has been a visiting scholar in the US (MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society), Germany (Viadrina Center B/Orders in Motion) and Sweden (Swedish Institute for Disability Research). With support from a series of fellowships and grants, he has published on a range of issues and technologies. He is the author of Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era (Springer, 2017) and Analog Labor, Digital Capital (Angelus Novus, 2018, In Greek)

Stathis Arapostathis, Associate Professor

Associate Professor in History of Science and Technology in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research interests are in the following research domains: history of technology; science and technology studies; science and technology policy; law, science and technology. His research focuses on the history and sociology of expertise in environmental topics; the history and sociology of environmental politics and policies; history and policies of knowledge management, research and innovation. He worked as researcher in the following universities: University of Leeds, Edinburgh University, Cardiff University. He was Douglas Byrne Μarconi Research Fellow in the University of Oxford (2011), Seeger Visiting Fellow in the Center for the Hellenic Studies, Princeton University (Spring 2019) and Fulbright Fellow at the Science and Innovation Studies Center, Law School, UC Davis (2016). He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals in the history of technology, science and technology studies and technology policy. With Graeme Gooday he co-authored the book Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain (MIT Press, 2013). Recently he edited the special issue How History Matters in the Governance of Sociotechnical Transitions (with Peter Pearson), Environmental Innovations and Societal Transitions (2019).

Iraklis Katsaloulis, Post-doctoral Researcher

Iraklis Katsaloulis holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from University of Crete, and an MA and a PhD in History of Science from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He is a Postdoctoral Researcher at NKUA and he also works as a Researcher at the National Documentation Center of Greece, where he is Coordinator of the Open Science Group. He has taught in the Graduate Program in ‘Science, Technology, Society—Science and Technology Studies’ at NKUA. He has made presentations in conferences and he has published articles in journals and edited collections. He is the author of Earthquake Prediction in Greece: Science, Politics, and Public Sphere (Ropi Publications, 2020, in Greek). His research interests include the history of earthquake prediction, scientific controversies, the history, philosophy and sociology of experimentation, science policy, scientific expertise, the public image of science, and open science.

Vasiliki Christopoulou, PhD Candidate

Vasiliki Christine Christopoulou is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She studied Applied Mathematics and Physics at the National Technical University of Athens and she holds a M.Sc. in Physics and Technological Applications (NTUA) and an M.A. in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (NKUA). Her research focuses on the history of physics, particularly on experimental practice in nineteenth-century physics. She has participated in international workshops and she has made presentations in international conferences.

Stylianos Kampouridis, Postdoctoral Researcher

Stylianos Kampouridis holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a MA and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He was a 2015 Allington Fellow at the Science History Institute (former Chemical heritage Foundation) in Philadelphia, USA. His research interests include the construction of computational models in quantum chemistry, the implementation of these models by the broader chemical community, and the role of prediction in chemistry.

Grigoris Panoutsopoulos, Postdoctoral Researcher

Grigoris Panoutsopoulos completed his PhD in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics and an M.A. in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. His research has focused on particle physics, the history of CERN, Big Science and the relationship between theory and experiment. He has made presentations in international conferences and he has published articles in international journals and edited collections. He is co-author of Borders, Bodies and Narratives of Crisis in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Collaborators

Matthias Heymann

Matthias Heymann is professor for the history of science and technology at the Centre for Science Studies, Aarhus Unversity, Denmark. His research focuses on the history of environmental science and technology. He has published on the history of energy technologies, of atmospheric and climate research and of engineering design. He is Associate Editor of Centaurus and Domain Editor of WIREs Climate Change for the domain Climate, History, Society, Culture. Currently he coordinates the Tensions of Europe Research Group on Technology, Environment and Resources (together with Elena Kochetkova, St. Petersburg) and the research network “Challenging Europe: Technology, Environment and the Quest for Resource Security” (EurReS) funded by the Danish Council of Independent Research (2018-2022).

Link to website http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/[email protected]

Michela Massimi

Michela Massimi is Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Dept. of Philosophy, at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. She works in the area of history and philosophy of science with a focus on the physical sciences. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Astronomical Society, corresponding Member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences and elected Member of the Academia Europaea.
She is the recipient of the Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture 2017 for her interdisciplinary work and communication of philosophy of science, especially modern physics. She served as Elected Member of the PSA Governing Board (2012-2015) and from 2015 to 2019 she was Vice-President of the European Philosophy of Science Association. She was the Co-Editor in Chief of The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 2011 to end of 2016. She is President-Elect of the Philosophy of Science Association with her two-year Presidency coming up in 2023-24.

Link to website https://www.michelamassimi.com/

Ana Simões

Ana Simões is Full Professor of History of Science at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and member of the Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), which she (co-)coordinated from 2007 to 2019. She is President of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) (2018-2020) and will become ESHS vice-president, from September 2020 to 2022.

Her research interests include the history of quantum chemistry, and history of science in Portugal, 18th to 20th centuries, with special emphasis on urban history of science and the Anthropocene as seen through the lens of history of science. She is a founding member of the international group STEP – Science and Technology in the European Periphery and of the online journal of history of science and technology HoST. She authored and edited more than 150 publications, participates in national and international research projects and networks, and regularly organizes meetings, both nationally and internationally.

Recent publications include Sciences in the Universities of Europe, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Academic Landscapes (Springer, 2015), “STEP Forum”, Technology and Culture, 57 (4), 2016, 926-81, Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2019), and Einstein, Eddington and the Eclipse. Travel Impressions (Chili com Carne, 2019).

For an extended CV see https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/7016-FB02-77C2

Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle

Friedrich Steinle is professor of History of Science at Technische Universität Berlin. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of experiment, on the dynamics of scientific concepts, on the history of colour research, and on the history of electricity. His books include Newton’s Manuskript ‘De gravitatione’ (1991) and Exploratory Experiments. Ampère, Faraday, and the Origins of Electrodynamics (2016). He is co-editor, among others, of Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice (2012, with U. Feest), and of Colour Histories. Science, art, and technology in the 17th and 18th centuries (2015, with M. Bushart).

Extended CV Friedrich Steinle
Link to professional web page: https://tinyurl.com/y52jyu6h

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