STAFF
Achilleas Kleisouras, Specialized Technical Laboratory Staff
Achilleas Kleisouras is employed as a Specialized Technical Laboratory Staff at the Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory of the Department of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He studied Physics at the University of Athens, History and Creative Writing at McGill and Concordia University, and Comics and Illustration at Dawson College in Montreal, Canada. He holds a Master's in Creative Writing from the Hellenic Open University and is currently a PhD candidate at the same University in the field of Modern Greek Literature. His research interests focus mainly on the literature of nineteenth century Greece and it's adaptation into the comic form, as well as the various applications of comics and graphic novels in the medical field (i.e. graphic medicine). He is also an illustrator and comic strip artist and several of his works have appeared in Greek publications over the years. He has published a comic album and authored a collection of short stories in English.
E-mail: akleis@philosophy.uoa.gr ♦ ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9438-1451
Eleni Karamatziani, on secondmend
Elina K. Karamatziani holds a PhD in Philosophy from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), with a dissertation on the ethical dimensions of organ donation. She also holds a Master's degree in Theory and Practice of Teaching and Evaluation and is a permanent secondary education teacher. Since 2020, she has served as a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy of NKUA and as Head of the Human Resources Department of the Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory. Her research interests include metaethics, normative ethical theory (particularly Utilitarianism, Kantian Deontology, and Aristotelian Virtue Ethics), Platonic metaphysics, and Applied and Environmental Ethics. She has presented papers at national and international conferences and has published in peer-reviewed academic journals. Dr. Karamatziani has coordinated the International World Bioethics Day Conferences organized by the Greek Unit of the International Chair in Bioethics and contributes to bioethics outreach initiatives for secondary education through the Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory. She also serves as General Secretary of the Association of Teachers and Intellectuals for the Promotion of Philosophy in Education (EKDEF).
E-mail: elinakara@philosophy.uoa.gr ♦ ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8498-6775