The members of the BIO-CONTEXT Advisory Board have been selected based on their capacity to advise on
the different aspects of the project.
Dr Sylva Haralambous, biologist, was a Research Director, Head of the Inflammation Research lab and Transgenic Technology Unit, Department of Immunology and Director of the Department of Animal Models for Biomedical Research in the Hellenic Pasteur Institute (HPI) until 2021. She has a PhD degree in Biology from the Department of Biology National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and post-doctoral studies and positions in USA, England and France. From 1987 to 2021 she has been working in HPI. Her high expertise concerns modeling human inflammatory situations during the development of infectious, autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases using state-of-the-art transgenic technologies, as well as preclinical evaluation of anti-inflammatory drugs. She has been collaborating with international and national pharmaceutical companies for more than 25 years. During her career she received many fellowships and distinctions. She has been member of the Institutional Scientific Committee of HPI, member of the National Committee for the animal welfare used for scientific purposes, president of Protocol Evaluation Committee, member of the Institutional Ethics Committee of HPI and member of other international societies. She has many publications in peer-reviewed International Journals, she has supervised PhDs, MSc and BCs diplomas, she has given several talks in National and International Conferences and educational courses, participated in National and European research projects with academia and bio-industry and she has been evaluator of many research projects and reviewer in international journals. She has organized national and international educational courses.
Interdisciplinary in science is also one of her interests. In parallel with her research, is investing in educational and other activities for more than 20 years. Among them is the organization the Historical Archives of HPI with the financial support of I. S. Latsis Foundation, lectures on bioethics, teaching of Biology, History of Biology and Darwinism at graduate level in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of NKUA, as well as Transgenic Technologies in Immunology and Medicine at postgraduate level, mainly in various Departments of NKUA.
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.
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Aristotle Tympas, a specialist in the study of technology from the humanities and the social sciences, works as Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His studies combined engineering (MSc, Aristotelio University, 1989), technology and science policy (MSc, Georgia Tech, 1995) and history-sociology of technology (PhD, Georgia Tech, 2001). In addition to teaching courses at his university (at his home department and at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications), he has helped to introduce and teach courses in the digital, environmental and medical humanities at several other universities, in Greece and abroad. Former chair (2017-2019) of the management committee of the ‘Tensions of Europe: Research Network on History, Technology and Europe’, Tympas currently serves as vice president of the International Master’s Programme on Society, Science and Technology (ESST), as director of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program ‘Science, Technology, Society—Science and Technology Studies’ and as chair of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. 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). Tympas has supervised over one hundred student theses (undergraduate, graduate, doctoral), Greek and international. With support from a series of fellowships and grants, he has published on a range of issues and technologies (Theory / Historiography, Artificial Intelligence / Computing / Communication / Automation, Energy / Environment / Sustainability, Biotech / Biomed / Med / Disability, Labor / Gender / Migration, Greece). 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).
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