Education:
-PhD, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2024);
-MA, “History and Philosophy of Sciences and Technology”, Inter-University Programme of Graduate Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – National Technical University of Athens (2014);
-BA, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (2012).
Dissertation title:
The integration of computers in medical technologies and the concept of death
Publications:
Publications (peer reviewed)
Vlantoni, K., Raptis, K., & Barlagiannis, A. (2025). The multiple functions of viral testing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece: Public health and the governance of society. In G. Getzinger, M. Jahrbacher, & R. L. Prunč (Eds.), Conference proceedings of the 23rd STS Conference Graz 2025 (pp. 159–182). TU Graz Verlag.
Book Chapters
Raptis, K. (2014). [The city as a prison]. In Critique of Science Group (Ed.), Sciences, technology, ideology: Critical approaches (pp. 39–52). Ekdotiki Athinon. (in Greek)
Conferences:
-Ράπτης, Κ., & Μπαρλαγιάννης, Αθ. “Πλέοντας με το Ματαρόα, ταξιδεύοντας με την ιατρική: ο Ανδρέας Γληνός μεταξύ Ελλάδας, Γαλλίας, ΗΠΑ και Ευρώπης,” Ημερίδα: «Ματαρόα 1945, 80 χρόνια μετά. Αποδημίες επιστημόνων και διανοουμένων: Νέες προσεγγίσεις και μαρτυρίες», ΕΚΠΑ και Γαλλικό Ινστιτούτο Ελλάδος, Athens, Greece, 2025.
-Ράπτης, Κ., & Βλαντώνη, Κ., “Οι διαγνωστικοί έλεγχοι ως ευρετικός μηχανισμός για την ιστορία του HIV/AIDS,” 1η Επιστημονική Συνάντηση για την Ιστορία της Επιστήμης και της Τεχνολογίας, Athens, Greece, 2025.
-Vlantoni Κ., Pateraki Μ., Raptis Κ., Savaidou Ε., & Barlagiannis Α. “What is being tested? Making and debating HIV testing and screening policies in Greece (1983–1995),” European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH) 2025 – Health Beyond Medicine, Berlin, Germany, 2025.
-Vlantoni Κ., & Raptis Κ., “Testing and screening for COVID-19 in Greece: public health crisis and the governance of citizens,” 23rd Annual STS Conference, Graz, Austria, 2025.
-Raptis K., Barlagiannis A., Vlantoni K. “Testing infrastructures and the management of epidemics in Greece, from HIV to COVID-19,” International Workshop “Testing under crisis / Testing the crises,” Athens, Greece, 2024.
-Vlantoni K., Raptis K. “Digital transformations and testing during the Covid-19 health crisis,” 2nd International Conference on “Politics of Technologies in the Digital Age,” Ioannina, Greece, 2024.
-Raptis K. “Digitizing diagnosis: the early days of computerization in diagnostic and testing technologies,” Diagnosis Conference: Between Knowing and Doing, Medical Museion, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2024.
-Raptis K., Papanastasiou K., & Vlantoni K. “Humans as ‘very complicated, exciting, and beautiful machines’: From 1960s computer-based concepts of death to 2010s births by artificial intelligence,” The 11th Tensions of Europe Conference, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany/Poland, 2024.
-Raptis K. “The early days of digital computer in medical diagnosis: the cases of Computed Tomography and Pap Test,” 11th European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) Conference: “Science, Technology, Humanity, and the Earth,” Barcelona, Spain, 2024.
-Raptis K. “Death in a ‘digital’ age: The introduction of computerized tomography (CT) scan as a re-organization of life and death,” 9th Tensions of Europe Conference: “Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age,” Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2019.
-Raptis K. “Between the general and the specific: methodological questions on the reshaping of death by digital medical technologies,” Research Workshop on Science, Technology, Society (STS) / History, Technology, Society (HTS): Bioeconomy, Biotechnology, Medical Technologies, Athens, Greece, 2018.
-Raptis K., & Tympas A. “Digital Death: Digitalization of Medical Technologies and Conceptions of Death,” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Boston, USA, 2017.
Vlantoni K., Raptis K., & Tympas A. “Exorcizing the environment: Technology as medicalized etiology in screening and treating blood,” 7th Tensions of Europe Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015.
-Ράπτης K. “Τεχνολογία, Χρόνος, Θάνατος,” 3ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Ιστορίας των Επιστημών και της Τεχνολογίας, ΕΜΔΙΕΤ και ΜΙΘΕ–ΕΚΠΑ, Athens, Greece, 2015.
Αλεξάκης Σ., Ράπτης Κ., Παπαλέξης Α., Χορδάκη Ε., Κλημόπουλος Α., & Δεπούντη Ω. “Η τεχνοεπιστημονική συγκρότηση του δημόσιου λόγου στις τοπικές κοινωνίες: Η περίπτωση της εκτροπής του Αχελώου,” 3ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Ιστορίας των Επιστημών και της Τεχνολογίας, ΕΜΔΙΕΤ και ΜΙΘΕ–ΕΚΠΑ, Athens, Greece, 2015.
-Ράπτης K. “Ψηφιακή υγεία: οι καρκινοπαθείς μπροστά στις ιατρικές τεχνολογίες,” 11η Επιστημονική Ημερίδα Συλλόγου Καρκινοπαθών, Εθελοντών, Φίλων, Ιατρών Αθηνών, Athens, Greece, 2014.
-Ράπτης K. “Η πόλη ως φυλακή,” Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Ιστορίας της Επιστήμης και της Τεχνολογίας, ΕΜΔΙΕΤ και ΜΙΘΕ–ΕΚΠΑ, Athens, Greece, 2013.
Grants/ Fellowships/ Awards:
Fellow of the project “Strengthening Human Resources Research Potential via Doctorate Research – 2nd Cycle” (MIS-5000432), implemented by the State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ).
Teaching Experience:
-Co-teaching (with A. Tympas and I. Spilios) of the course “History and Philosophy of Technology” at the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema, School of Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Fall Semester, 2025-2026
-Co-teaching (with K. Vlantoni) of the course “History of Biology” at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Spring Semester, 2024-2025
-Co-teaching (with A. Tympas) of the course “History of Informatics and Telecommunications” at the Department of Informatics, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Spring Semester, 2024-2025 (the course was offered to students from both the Department of Informatics and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
