Stathis Arapostathis
Education
10/2001- 11/2006 University of Oxford- Faculty of Modern History
D. Phil Thesis: ‘Consulting Engineers in the British Electric Light and
Power Industry, c 1880-1914’ (awarded November 2006)
Supervisor: Prof. Robert Fox
Examiners: Prof. Crosbie Smith, University of Kent
Dr. Anna Guagnini, University of Bologna
6/2000 University of California at Berkeley,
7th International Summer School in the History of Modern Science and Technology
1996-1999 National University of Athens - Department of History and Philosophy of Science
MA (Distinction) in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
1990-1996 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Department of Physics
BSc Physics
Academic Posts
01/2020- the present, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology
04/2015- 01/2020, University of Athens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Assistant Professor of History of Science and Technology
09/2017-to date, University of Thessaly, School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Adjunct Lecturer (fixed term), MSc in Toxicology
Postgraduate Module: Toxicology, Society and Bioethics (emphasis on Governance)
02/2016-05/2016 Fulbright Fellow, Law School, Centre of Science and Innovation Studies, University of California at Davis (UC Davis)
12/2015 - 06/2018, Democretian University of Thrace, Greece
Adjunct Lecturer (fixed term), MSc Programme in Environmental Studies and Education
Postgraduate Module: Environmental Knowledge and its Social Shaping
01/2012- 04/2015, University of Athens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Lecturer in the History of Science and Technology
10/2012- to date, Hellenic Open University, Programme of European Civilisation
Adjunct Lecturer (fixed term)
1/3/2012- 1/3/2016 University of Cardiff, Low Carbon Research Institute
Visiting Fellow
2/5/2011- 20/1/2012, Cardiff University, Welsh School of Architecture, Low Carbon Research Institute
Research Associate
EPRC Funded Project: Transition Pathways in Low Carbon Economy
Historical case studies of the energy sector: electricity and gas
Historically informed policy for low carbon transition pathways
1/5/2011- 31/8/2011 Douglas Bryne Fellowship, Oxford University
‘Scholar in residence’ in the Marconi Collection and the History of Science Museum
10/2010-31/12/2011, University of Leeds, Philosophy Department- Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science.
Visiting Fellow
10/2010- 1/5/2011University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences
Technology and Innovation Studies Researcher
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project: Realizing the Potential?
UKERC funded project; Participants: School of Geosciences and Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation, University of Edinburgh; SPRU, University of Sussex; Energy and Technology Policy Unit, Imperial College
History of the UK Natural Gas Network, 1960-2010: Uncertain Transitions and Transitional Uncertainties
Historically Informed Reconstructions on Technological Analogues to CCS technological system
9/2007- 9/2010 University of Leeds, Philosophy Department- Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science.
Research Fellow
AHRC funded Project: ‘Owning and Disowning Invention: Intellectual Property and Authority in Science and Technology in Britain 1870-1930
Educational Experience
4/2015-to date Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology
Undergraduate Modules:
1) Science, Technology, Society
2) Science and Technology Policy
3) History of Technology
4) Law Science and Technology
5) Environment, Science and Technology
Postgraduate Modules:
1) History of Technology
2) Law, Science and Technology: Intellectual Property and the Making of Science and Technology from History to Policy Concerns
3) Governance, Technosciences and Democracy
4) Environment, Science and Technology
5) Science and Technology Policy
1/2012- 4/2015 Lecturer in the History of Science and Technology
Undergraduate modules: 1) History of Technology; 2) History of Science and Technology Policy; 3) Special Issues in History of Technology (STS oriented module); 4) Special Issues in History of Technology II; 5) Science, Technology, Society
Post graduate modules: 1) History of Technology (Spring 2013) ; 2) Science, Technology and Society( Fall 2013, Fall 2014); 3) Science,Technology and Environment (Spring 2013); 4) Law, Science and Technology (Spring 2014) 5) Science and Technology Policy (Fall 2014)
12/2015 - to date, Democretian University of Thrace, Greece
Adjunct Professor (fixed term), MSc Programme in Environmental Studies and Education
Postgraduate Module: Environmental Knowledge and its Social Shaping
Series Lectures on: Governance of Energy and Environmental Technologies; Experts vs Non Experts: Civil Society and Environmental Conflicts; Regulatory Science, Toxicity, Expertise and the Governance of Technosciences
10/2013- to date, Adjuct Lecturer in the Hellenic Open University
Undergraduate module: History and Philosophy of Science
11/2012- 06/2015, University Tutor, History of Science, Further Education Programme, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
1/3/2007- 30/6/2007 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens- Department of History and
Philosophy of Science
Teaching Assistant in the module ‘Introduction to the History of Technology’
December 2006, University of Thessaly, Department of Computing Engineering, Invited speaker, Lecture title: ‘Histories of Innovations, Failures and Technological Changes in the Information Era’
4/11/2004, Oxford University, Modern History Faculty
Invited Seminar: ‘Innovations, Engineering Practices and Roles in Consulting: The Case of John Hopkinson, 1878-1898’, Themes and Problems in the History of Science and Technology (Seminar Series).
Research Projects
Configuring Environment and Food (CONEF): Critical Technoscientific Networks and the Agrifood Sector in Greece 1950-2017, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Principal Investigator, funded by The Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, 2019-2022
The Perils of Prediction in the Physical Sciences: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives (PYTHIA), National and Kapodstrian University of Athens research project (PI: Professor Theodore Arabatzis), funded by The Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, Researcher, 2019-2022.
23 June 2017- 22 June 2021, Cost Action CA 16202, International Network to Encourage the Use of Monitoring and Forecasting Dust Products
- Co-investigator
- Member of the Management Committee
1/2016- to the present Co-investigator in the project History of Nuclear Energy and Society (HoNESt)
Experts, Civil Society, Techno-politics and the ‘Nuclearlity’ of Greece 1960 to the present (http://www.honest2020.eu/)
2014-present, Intellectual ‘Property’, Industrial Culture and the Politics of Invention in 20TH Century Greece
Research Network Member, Project: Patent Diversity
2012-present General Secretariat of Research and Technology, Ministry of Education, Greece, Programme for post-doctoral fellowships
Principal Investigator, Project: Techno-sciences on Trial: Courts, Experts and Culture in post-War Greece, 1950-2010
2/5/2011- 20/1/2012, Cardiff University, Welsh School of Architecture, Low Carbon Research Institute
Research Associate
EPRC Funded Project: Transition Pathways in Low Carbon Economy
Historical case studies of the energy sector: electricity and gas
Historically informed policy for low carbon transition pathways
10/2010- 1/5/2011University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences
Technology and Innovation Studies Researcher
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project: Realizing the Potential?
UKERC funded project; Participants: School of Geosciences and Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation, University of Edinburgh; SPRU, University of Sussex; Energy and Technology Policy Unit, Imperial College
• History of the UK Natural Gas Network, 1960-2010: Uncertain Transitions and Transitional Uncertainties
• Historically Informed Reconstructions on Technological Analogues to CCS technological system
• History and Politics of Carbon Capture Technologies.
3/9/2007-31-/9/2010 University of Leeds- Department of Philosophy
Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Post-doc Research Fellow
Research Project: ‘Owning and Disowning Invention: Intellectual Property, Authority and Identity in the British Science and Technology, 1880-1920’.
- History of Intellectual Property in Science and Technology
1/1/2007- 30/6/2010 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Associate Researcher
Member of the research network ‘Inventing Europe: Technology and the Making of Europe, 1850 to the present’ http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/programmes/inventing-europe.html
Member of the research project ‘Technologies of Network Interfaces: The International Links of Greece’s power and communication infrastructure’, ‘Eurocrit: The emergence and governance of critical transnational European Infrastructures’ (http://www.eurocrit.eu/index.html).
Eurocrit Project Director: Arne Kaijser, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
1/1/1999- 31/6/1999 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NUA) - Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Junior Researcher
Research project on the history of educational institutions in the Greek speaking areas from 15th to the end of 19th centuries
Project leaders: Prof. Kostas Gavroglu, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Prof. Dimitris Dialetis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
1/1/1998-31/6/1998 National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)
Junior Researcher
Research project on the history of scientific instruments in Greek educational institutions from the late 18th to the Second World War
Archival research and data compilation
Participation in the initial stage of the construction of the Virtual museum of the History of Scientific Instruments (www.weblab.gr/hasi).
Project Leaders: Dr Efthymios Nikolaidis (NHRF)
Prof. Michalis Assimakopoulos (NTUA)