ADVISORY BOARD
Professor Dimitrios J. Dimitriou
Professor of Management and Applications of Quantitative Methods at the Democritus University of Thrace and Head of the Department. He holds a PhD in Econometric Modelling for Demand Forecasting, an MSc in Airport Planning and Management, an MSc in Infrastructure Environmental Management, and a Diploma in Civil Engineering (Transportation), equivalent to a five-year integrated Bachelor's and Master's degree. His scholarly work comprises more than 200 publications, including articles in peer-reviewed journals, scientific books, and papers presented at international conferences. He has participated in 21 research projects, serving as principal investigator in four of them. His professional experience includes executive management positions, the preparation of specialized studies, and consultancy for a wide range of investment projects in transportation planning, management, and economics. In recognition of his professional achievements, he received the Professional Achievement Award (Greece) at the 2018 British Council Study UK Alumni Awards.
E-mail: ddimitri@econ.duth.gr ♦ ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5744-5110
Professor Emeritus Dionisis G. Drosos
Dionisis Drosos is Professor Emeritus of Moral Philosophy in the Department of Political Sciences at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Before joining Aristotle University, he taught at the Universities of Crete and Ioannina, where he developed a distinguished academic profile in moral and political philosophy. His research focuses on moral philosophy, the Scottish Enlightenment, the thought of David Hume and Adam Smith, classical and modern economic liberalism, political economy, and Holocaust studies. He is particularly known for his work on Adam Smith's moral philosophy and its relevance to contemporary debates on ethics, markets, and democratic society. Drosos is the author of several influential monographs and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on ethics, liberalism, political philosophy, and the history of ideas. He has also translated Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments into Greek, accompanied by an extensive introduction and commentary, making a significant contribution to the study of Enlightenment thought in Greece.
E-mail: dgdrosos@gmail.com ♦ ORCID iD:
Assistant Professor Nikos Erinakis
Nikos Erinakis [b. 1988, Athens] is an Asst. Professor of Political & Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Culture at the University of Crete and Adj. Professor at the University of Athens and the Hellenic Open University. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy [University of London & University of Oxford (recognised research student)], having studied Economics [AUEB], Philosophy & Literature [Warwick] and Philosophy of the Social Sciences [LSE]. He is the Director of Research at the think-tank ENA, while he is a board member of the Hellenic Authors’ Society and the Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra, and has been a board member of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival and the Corfu International Festival. He has been honoured by the Academy of Athens with the Award for Excellent Philosophical Treatise for his philosophy book "Authenticity and Autonomy: From Creativity to Freedom" (Keimena, 2020). He has also published three poetry books, two anthologies of poems by major modern European poets, and four edited collections of philosophy essays. He currently teaches and publishes extensively on Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Digitality, while his new philosophy book "Hyperdialectics of Eutopia: Humanness, Artificiality, Freedom" (Keimena, 2025) recently got published. His papers, articles and poems have been widely acclaimed, translated and published in international peer-reviewed journals, edited collections, anthologies and the popular press.
E-mail: nikos.erinakis@uoc.gr ♦ ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7188-2993
Rev. Dr. Philotheos (Fotios) Maroudas
Filotheos-Fotios Maroudas is a cleric of the Holy Metropolis of Germany (Greek Orthodox parish of Dortmund-Bochum) and Doctor of Theology from the University of Strasbourg (2012). Postgraduate specialisation studies at the same university and in Bonn. He is conducting Interreligious doctoral research at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and pursuing his Habilitation at Münster. He serves as Head of the 2nd Greek Section of the International Chair of Bioethics (I.C.B.) – UNESCO (2022–), is a member of Research Ethics and Deontology Committees, and serves as an evaluator of Special Research Programs. His scholarly work focuses on the foundational theological underpinnings of interreligious bioethics, Christian–Islamic dialogue, and Orthodox dogmatic and symbolic theology. He specialises in confessional comparative theology, developing an evaluation of Shi'ite Islamic Christology, interreligious theological dialogue, and the nexus of martyrdom–Christology in Abrahamic traditions. He teaches in undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the University of Athens (EKPA) and the Université Orthodoxe du Congo. Key publications: Prolegomena zu einer erweiterten Symbolik (Münster, 2026), Chapters in Symbolic Theology (Athens, 2026), Orthodox Theology in Dialogue with Divergent Christologies of East and West (Athens, 2025), The Dogmatic Construction of Kenotic Christology (Athens, 2025).
E-mail: ffmaroudas@philosophy.uoa.gr ♦ ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2583-0089
Dr. Konstantina Mylona – Giannakakou
Dr. Konstantina P. Mylona – Giannakakou (PhD in Ethics) was born in Athens. She holds a BA in English Studies and is an M. Phil. graduate (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). She also holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (ALBA business school). For more than 18 years she has been working as a marketing and business expertise and is the co-founder of a consulting company. She has participated in World and International conferences and has published articles in academic and scientific journals and conferences in the areas of agricultural biotechnology and genetic modification. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Greek Unit of the International Chair in Bioethics (WMA Cooperating Center). She is also a member of the Greek Philosophical Society, the International Association of Greek Philosophy, the American Philosophical Association as well as the International Association for Promoting Geoethics.
E-mail: dinmyl@philosophy.uoa.gr ♦ ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2173-3057
Associate Professor Fereniki Panagopoulou
Fereniki Panagopoulou is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. She studied Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, earning undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Public Law, pursued studies in Law and Public Health at Harvard University, and received her PhD in Constitutional Law and Bioethics from Humboldt University of Berlin. She served for eight years as Legal Auditor at the Hellenic Data Protection Authority. Her teaching spans Constitutional Law, Law and New Technologies, Public Health Law, American Law, and Bioethics at Panteion University, Humboldt University, the Berlin School of Economics and Law, and several Greek universities. Panagopoulou has authored seven monographs on public law, co-edited six collective volumes, and published extensively on constitutional law, bioethics, data protection, and emerging technologies. She currently serves as President of the Executive Committee of the Greek Bioethics Unit of UNESCO and Editor-in-Chief of the Administrative Law Review.
E-mail: fereniki@panteion.gr ♦ ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7109-7311
Dr. Vasileios E. Pantazis
Vasileios E. Pantazis (with studies in Pedagogy and Theology, a PhD in the Department of Pedagogy at the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens, and postdoctoral research at the University of Duisburg–Essen in Germany) teaches anthropological pedagogy of the biosciences, bioethics, and philosophy of biology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Thessaly (Larissa). He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Laboratory of Applied Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Athens, where he teaches the pedagogy of bioethics and scientific research methodology. His research is situated within philosophical-anthropological perspectives on pedagogy, with an orientation toward dialogue with the findings of the life sciences, primarily within the German academic and educational environment. He also studies the work of Alexandros Papadiamantis from an anthropological-pedagogical perspective.
E-mail: vapantazis@bio.uth.gr ♦ ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2523-110X
Assistant Professor Thanasis Sakellariadis
Athanassios Sakellariadis is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina and former director of the Dpt. of Philosophy. He studied at the University of Crete (undergraduate studies), the University of Athens, U.C.L.A., the University of Regensburg (graduate studies), and received a PhD from the University of Ioannina (2000). He is the author of three books and editor and co-editor of two published volumes. Athanassios Sakellariadis has also published more than fifty-five papers in domestic and international journals and volumes, and he is a member of several international philosophical societies and committees. His research interests include the philosophy of mind, with particular emphasis on theories of consciousness, and the philosophy of language, especially the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. His research also encompasses philosophy and literature, philosophy of film, and philosophy of religion.
E-mail: asakel@uoi.gr ♦ ORCID iD:
Associate Professor Mohamed Ahmed Suleiman
Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Suleiman is Associate Professor of Medieval Christianity and Theology at Sohag University, Egypt, where he teaches in the Departments of Philosophy, Philosophy and Sociology, and the Center of Open Learning. His research focuses on Medieval Christian philosophy, Byzantine theology and philosophy, Christian applied ethics, religious ethics, theological anthropology, and Christian–Islamic interreligious dialogue, with particular emphasis on ethical values and social tolerance. He has held teaching positions at Beni Suef University and has been a visiting researcher or scholar at leading European institutions, including the Central European University, the University of Pavia, Charles University, the University of Vienna, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, and the University of Bucharest. Dr. Suleiman has published widely on Byzantine philosophy, theology, and religious ethics, and has translated medieval and Byzantine philosophical works into Arabic. He has also held senior administrative positions in Egyptian higher education and serves on the editorial review board of Conatus – Journal of Philosophy.
E-mail: amas2010@yahoo.com ♦ ORCID iD:
Professor Vasileios Syros
Dr. Vasileios Syros is Docent in Political History, the History of Political Thought, and Jewish Intellectual History at the Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä and at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His research explores Christian, Jewish, and Islamic political thought, with particular emphasis on comparative political theory and medieval and early modern intellectual history. He is the author of several influential books, including Marsilius of Padua at the Intersection of Ancient and Medieval Cultures and Traditions of Political Thought (University of Toronto Press) and Well Begun is Only Half Done (ACMRS). His work has appeared in leading journals such as Renaissance Quarterly, History of Political Thought, Journal of World History, and Philosophy East & West. He has held fellowships at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has taught at Stanford, Chicago, McGill, and the École Pratique des Hautes Études. He also edits scholarly book series and serves on several international editorial and COST Action committees.
E-mail: ekdotika@gmail.com ♦ ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3703-2412
Associate Professor Spyridon Tegos
Spyridon Tegos is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Politics at the University of Crete, Greece. He holds a PhD from the University of Paris X-Nanterre, with a thesis on the concept of social sentiments (friendship, sympathy, compassion) in early modern political philosophy. In his research, he focuses on the history of moral, social, and political philosophy, particularly in the Scottish and French Enlightenment traditions. He recently published “Ritualistic Enlightenment: Beliefs, Religious, and Political Rituals in David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau” (Athens: Armos, 2019). His current research delves into the classical French sources in early modern theater and belles-lettres that influenced early Scottish liberalism (David Hume & Adam Smith) and, subsequently, French liberalism (Germaine de Staël, Alexis de Tocqueville). This investigation explores the social and political significance of “middling rank” (middle class) manners.
E-mail: stegos@uoc.gr ♦ ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5563-1836
Associate Professor Christos Yapijakis
Christos Yapijakis is an Associate Professor of Genetics and Head of the Unit of Orofacial Genetics at the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Vice President of the Greek Institute of Child Health, and Director of the ‘Cephalogenetics’ Center. He has conducted extensive research on the genetics of hereditary neurological disorders and craniofacial syndromes and has established two pioneering units (Neurogenetics and Orofacial Genetics) at the NKUA School of Medicine. He has received awards for basic research at international and national medical conferences, as well as the "Georgios Papanikolaou" Health Personality Award (2026) from the Academy of Greek Art Awards. He conducted the first ancient DNA research in Greece and identified, within archaeological material, the pathogenic microorganism responsible for the Plague of Athens during the Classical era (430 BC), which was the first historically documented pandemic. Furthermore, he has engaged with the relationship between philosophy and science. He is a founding member of the "Garden of Athens" of Friends of Epicurean Philosophy (since 2009), the principal organizer of the Panhellenic Symposium of Epicurean Philosophy (since 2011), and an Advisory Committee member of the Laboratory of Applied Philosophy at the School of Philosophy of NKUA (since 2016). He has served as a member of the Bioethics Committee of the School of Medicine of NKUA (2020–2025) and is the Chair of the Bioethics Committee of the Institute of Child Health (2026–2031). He has authored approximately 250 international scientific papers, around 100 philosophical essays, six philosophical books, and the Declaration of the Right of Happiness in the European Union.
E-mail: cyapi@med.uoa.gr ♦ ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6695-186X