Science and Religion // Crete, 5-10.6.2017

Vassilios Constantoudis

Dr Vassilios Constantoudis is researcher in the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece. His research focuses on the modeling and simulation of systems exhibiting complexity in time or space domain with applications in nanometrology, nanotechnology, molecular physics and computational linguistics. He is also interested in the interface of science with society and culture with emphasis on the dialogue and osmosis of science with religion and art. 

Dr. Constantoudis is the co-author of more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and proceedings which have been cited more than 1400 times with h-index=21. He is co-founder of the Hellenic Society for Science and Religion and of the spin-off company Nanometrisis.

Full CV: http://inn.demokritos.gr/en/prosopiko/v.constantoudis/

Eudoxie Delli

Eudoxie Delli studied Law and Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She received her Postgraduate Diploma (DEA) in the History of Philosophy from the University of Paris X - Nanterre. Holding two Postgraduate scholarships, she carried on her studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (4th Section) in the History of Philosophy, Religions and Systems of Thought. In 2011 she obtained her Ph.D. with Distinction from E.P.H.E - Sorbonne for her research on the relations between Byzantine Philosophy and its ancient sources in the work of the Byzantine scholar Michael Psellos.
Her main research areas are the Philosophy of Late Antiquity and especially Neoplatonism and its reception in Patristic Literature and Byzantine Thought from an anthropological perspective; mentalities and systems of thought in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; and relationship of ancient Philosophy and Orthodox religion and spirituality.
She has written articles for international academic collective books and translated into Greek philosophical essays and literary texts. Since March 2013 she is a Post-doctoral Research associate at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NARSES Project, SOW Project).

Full CV: http://www.hpdst.gr/system/files/cv-delli-2013-en.pdf

Konstantinos Kalachanis

Konstantinos Kalachanis is Research Associate in the Faculty of Physics of the University of Athens (Department of Astrophysics-Astronomy and Mechanics). He received his degree in Philosophy-Pedagogics and Psychology from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens. Also he holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Athens and a Master’s degree in “Environment and Health, Capacity building for decision making” from the Medical School of the University of Athens. His scientific works includes 60 published articles in refereed scientific journals, in conference proceedings and scientific volumes. He has also participated in greek and international scientific conferences. Since 2012 he has been teaching the course “Bioethics” to the students of the Post Graduate Program “Environment and Health, Capacity building for decision making” and the course “Environment and Cancer” to  the students of the Post Graduate Program “Neoplasmatic Diseases: Modern Clinical-Pathologoanatomical approach and Research”.

Full CV:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Konstantinos_Kalachanis
http://uoa.academia.edu/KostasKalachanis

Efthymios Nicolaidis

Efthymios Nicolaidis is Research Director of the Programme “History, Philosophy and Didactics of Science and Technology” of the Institute of Historical Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation. He studied Physics and History of Science in France. His main publications concern the relations between science and religion, the history of science in Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire, and the spread of Modern European science. He is the author of the overview Science and Eastern Orthodoxy, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. He coordinates the project “Science and Orthodoxy around the World”(http://project-sow.org/). He is the President of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science.

 Full CV : http://www.eie.gr/nhrf/institutes/inr/cvs/cv-nikolaidis-en.pdf

Ronald Numbers

Ronald Numbers received his Ph.D. in History of Science from University of California, Berkeley in 1969. Currently he is emeritus Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. From 1989 to 1993 he was editor of Isis, an international journal of the history of science. With David Lindberg, he has co-edited two anthologies on the relationship between religion and science. Also he is currently editing the 8-volume Cambridge History of Science.

 Full CV : http://project-sow.org/sites/project-sow.org/files/full_cv_r.numbers.pdf

Petros Panagiotopoulos

Petros Panagiotopoulos studied Physics and Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a Postgraduate Diploma and PhD from the Faculty of Theology of A.U.TH. He’s collaborating with the Theology Department in Students’ Internship (Practicum) and Open Courses Programs. He works for website "Pemptousia" as Content Coach and Editor-in-chief at Religion’s section. He teaches in Theology Faculty of Christian Orthodox University in Congo (RDC). He has participated in conferences and seminars as a speaker and organizer. In the past he worked as Editor on scientific publications.

Georgios P. Pavlos

Georgios P. Pavlos is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering  in Democritus University of Thrace. He teaches Physics and Philosophy. He has created and is in head of the scientific research Thrace group in Chaos and Complexity.

His scientific activity develops within the theory and applications of Complexity Science, while his philosophical activity focuses on understanding the foundations and presuppositions (mental, cognitive, epistemological and other) of science, as well on the philosophical interpretation of modern scientific knowledge.

Full CV: http://www.gpavlos.gr/index_en.php?p=1

William R. Shea

William Shea is a Galileo Professor of History of Science Emeritus at the University of Padua. He studied at the University of Ottawa and the University of Cambridge where he received his Ph.D. He was Fellow of Harvard University before becoming Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at McGill University in Montreal and the first incumbent of the Hydro-Quebec Chair. He later taught at the University of Strasbourg from 1996 until 2003 when he was appointed Galileo Professor of History of Science at the University of Padua. He served as Chairman of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation, an association of 72 major research organizations from 30 countries in Europe, and he belongs to several academies including the Academia Europaea, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the Nobel prizes, and where he is a member of the Committee on Physics and Astronomy. He is Past President of both the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and the International Academy of the History of Science. In 2014 he was elected to the national academies of Bologna and Modena. He is the author of 10 books, the co-author or editor of 25 other books, and he has published some 180 scholarly articles that have appeared in 10 languages. His books have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Korean and Japanese. His play in Italian, Intervista a Galileo, was premiered at the Teatro Bonci of Cesena in April 2015.  He has been Visiting Professor in several universities including the University of Rome, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, the National University of Mexico, the University of Sao Paolo, and the Institute of Advance Studies in Bangalore, India. He has lectured extensively in North and South America, in Europe and in the Middle East. He was Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute of History of Science in Berlin in 2015.

 Full CV : http://project-sow.org/sites/project-sow.org/files/fullcv_shea.pdf

Dr. George N. Vlahakis

Dr. George N. Vlahakis is assistant professor on History of Science and Philosophy in the Hellenic Open University. His research focuses on the study of the history of science in the Southeastern Europe from the early 18th century up to the end of the 20th century.

His main research interests are history of physics, popularization of science, science and literature and science and religion. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and books in Greek and English. He is member of several scientific societies, secretary of the History of Physics Group/ European Physical Society and president of the Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST. 

Dr. Konstantinos Zormpas

Dr. Konstantinos Zormpas is the Director General of the Orthodox Academy of Crete. He was awarded a Degree in Political Sciences (Strasbourg 1981), a Degree in Sociology (Catholic Institute and Sorbonne, Paris 1987) and a Degree in Theology (Theological Institute of Saint Serge, Paris 1987). He received basic and postgraduate studies in the Sociology of Christianity and in Pastoral Sociology. He then attended postgraduate studies at the Theological School of Thessaloniki in the Department of Ethics and Sociology, where he was awarded his Doctorate in 1996, graded as ‘excellent’. He worked as a scientific associate of the Orthodox Academy of Crete from 1988 until 1999, contributing to the work of the local Church, through the scientific research of theological, social and other ecclesiastical affairs, to the development of educational and training activities, to the preparation and realization of conferences and various inter-Orthodox and inter-ecclesiastical meetings. He has actively participated with proposals and interventions in the course of the European Union, through the various committees of the Council of European Churches, as well as the Council of Europe. He served on the permanent Greek delegation to the European Union in Brussels for educational and ecclesiastical affairs. Among his works are ‘The human value in social utopias’, ‘Europe-Religion-Culture’, ‘Politics and Religions’, ‘Ecological Crisis and Education’, etc.