Education:
-PhD Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece;
-MSc, Science, Technology, Society—Science and Technology Studies’, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece (2024);
-MSc, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA (2022);
-BS, Chemical and Process Engineering, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany (2018).
Dissertation title:
STS perspectives on the integration of AI into the pursuit of Environmental Sustainability
Publications:
-Spilios, I., & Vartziotis, E.D., & Tympas, T. (2025). The ‘leaped advancement of industry’ and the ‘resound of lamentations’: A philosophical, historical, and sociological introduction to ‘existential threats’. Neusis, 193-210.
-Vartziotis, E. D., Spilios, I., & Tympas, A. (under publication). Localizing Existential Threats: Reflections from the Workshop “STSing Balkans, Balkanizing STS.” EASST Review / European Association for the Study of Science and Technology.
-Vartziotis, E. D., Vartziotis. T., Dellatolas, I., Dasoulas, G., Keckeisen, M., & Tympas, A. (under review). “Climate is now a data problem: On portraying AI as a solution to the existential risks of the environmental crisis.”
-Vartziotis, E. D., Vartziotis. T., Dasoulas, G., Dellatolas, I., Dominici, F., Kotsopoulos, S., & Tympas, A. (under review). “Environmental AI Research Priorities: What They Reveal About Optimism and Misalignment.”
Conferences:
-Vartziotis, E.D., & Tympas, T., “On the co-shaping of AI and environmental research: The view from leading science news journals,” 17th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference, NESS 2026, Uppsala, Sweden, 2026.
-Vartziotis, E.D., & Tympas, T., “Evaluating Existential Risks/Threats: Institutional Approaches and Criteria”, Workshop titled „…never neutral“—Practices, concepts and methods of evaluating technology over the last 50 years, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, June 2026.
-Vartziotis, E.D., & Tympas, T., (Panel Organizers) “Mapping the “End of the World”: An Institutional Landscape of Existential Risk Research,” STS NL 2026, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, 2026.
-Βαρτζιώτη, Ε. Δ. (Διοργανώτρια συνεδρίας), & Αλεξανδρόπουλος, Θ., «Η πυρηνική ενέργεια ως βιώσιμη λύση: Ιστορικές αφηγήσεις και η εποχή της ΤΝ», Ά Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Περιβαλλοντικής Ιστορίας: Συνομιλίες της Περιβαλλοντικής Ιστορίας με την Ιστορία της Επιστήμης και την Ιστορία της Τεχνολογίας, Αθήνα, Ελλάδα, 2025.
-Βαρτζιώτη, E. Δ., «Θα σώσει η Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη τον πλανήτη; Αφηγήσεις και προσδοκίες στη σύγχρονη ιστορία», 1η Επιστημονική Συνάντηση για την Ιστορία της Επιστήμης και της Τεχνολογίας, Αθήνα, Ελλάδα, 2025.
-Vartziotis, E. D., et al., “AI as the Environmental Savior? A Critical Review of Relevant Literature from Media Sources,” 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S): Reverberations, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Seattle, USA, 2025.
-Vartziotis, E. D., “Existential threats and their interconnection: A review of the use of Artificial Intelligence for the environmental crisis,” Emblematic Localities Against Existential Threats: STSing Balkans, Balkanizing STS, EASST, Delphi, Greece, 2025.
-Vartziotis, E. D., et al., “Will A.I. Ruin the Planet or Save the Planet?: An STS approach to the Connection Between A.I. and Climate Change,” 10th STS Italia Conference: Technoscience for Good – Designing, Caring, and Reconfiguring, STS Italia, Milan, Italy, 2025.
-Kazantzas, P., Vartziotis, E. D., & Tympas, A., “‘Artificial Intelligence is Fueling Energy Transition’: Well, Let’s Take It to the History of ‘Smart Grids’,” 11th Tensions of Europe Conference: Transformations. Fundamental Change and Technology, Tensions of Europe, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, 2024.
-Vartziotis, E. D., et al., “On Saving, Supposedly, the Environment Through AI: A Critical Review of Relevant Literature from Major Science Journals,” EASST and 4S Conference: Making and doing transformations, EASST and 4S, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2024.
-Vartziotis, E. D., Siamanta, Z. C., & Tympas, A., “‘Could Artificial Intelligence Save Our Planet?’ A Half-Century History of Answers,” Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context, University of Virginia, Online (USA), 2024.
-Vartziotis, E. D., et al., “Modeling Inundation Flooding in Urban Environments Using Density Functional Theory,” EURO-C 2022, Computational Modeling of Concrete and Concrete Structures, Obergurgl, Austria, 2022.
Fellowships/ Awards/ Distinctions:
Fellowships:
-George and Marie Vergottis Fellowship, 2019 (Nine months: Standard tuition, student health insurance, student life fee, and standard stipend)
-Research Scholarship, MIT, 2019 (2020-2022: Standard tuition, student health insurance, student life fee, and standard stipend)
Distinction:
-Master’s Degree in Science, Technology, Society (STS) with the distinction (GPA: 9.9/10, highest in the 2023-2024 class), Department of History and Philosophy of Science, NKUA, 2024
Award:
-Βραβείο, Διαγωνισμός Καινοτομίας 2026 Μονάδας Μεταφοράς Τεχνολογίας και Καινοτομίας “Αρχιμήδης” ΕΚΠΑ
Research Projects:
-Observatory for Research on Existential Threats: AI, Climate Change, Human-Made Pandemics
Ethics4Challenges (E4C), EU Erasmus+ Project, Researcher, NKUA Team, https://ethics4challenges.eu
-Blooming AI, EU Erasmus+ Project, Researcher, NKUA Team, https://bloomingai.uia.no
Laboratory of Philosophy, Ethics, Policy and Communication of Science and Technology, Member, NKUA, https://www.phs.uoa.gr/tmima/ergastiria
