MARIA SΟZOPOULOU

Dr. Maria Sozopoulou was born in Agrinion of Aitoloakarnania, Greece. She studied philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Education, and Psychology (present Department of Philosophy) of Philosophy School of the University of Ioannina. She completed at the same Department her MA studies in “Hellenic Philosophy - Philosophy of Sciences”, and her Ph.D. studies in platonic philosophy. In 2024 she completed her Postdoctoral research under the supervision of Professor Dimitris N. Lamprellis at the Department of Sociology of Panteion University of Athens. She participated in International Scientific Conferences in Greece, Europe, and the U.S.A. and she has English publications (peer review). She has published two book by Papazisis Publisher. The first one is entitled “Conceptions of Publicness in Plato’s Philosophy” (in the Greek language), and her second one is "Plato on Leadership. The Political Art and the Politician,'' (in the Greek language as well). She is a member of the “Research Group on Social and Political Philosophy” at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome. She is a Research Fellow at the Applied Philosophy Research Lab of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a Board Reviewer and Associate Editor at the CONATUS scientific Journal, and a member of the Editorial Secretary of the Annual Journal of Philosophical Research dia-LOGOS. She teaches at the MA «Animal Welfare, Ethics, and the Law» (Jointed MA Program of the Department of Philosophy of NKUA and the Hellenic Pasteur Institute). She has also taught philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Patras.

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