Education:
-PhD, Philosophy, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2023);
-MA, History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Phenomenology, Department of Philosophy, Sorbonne Université (2018);
-BA, Philosophy, Education and Psychology, University of Ioannina (2016);
-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, L3 Philosophie (Erasmus+ student) (2015).
Dissertation title:
The Self: Philosophical Approaches of Analytic and Phenomenological Tradition
Committee:
Profs. Anthony Hatzimoysis (Advisor), Stelios Virvidakis, Chrysostomos Mantzavinos
Publications:
-Vartziotis, E.D., Spilios, I., & Tympas, A. (2026). Localizing Existential Threats: Reflections from the Workshop “STSing Balkans, Balkanizing STS”, EASST Review, 44(2). https://easst.net/easst-review/44-2/localizing-existential-threats/
-Spilios, I., Vartziotis, E. D., & Tympas, A. (2025). The “leaped advancement of industry” and the “resound of lamentations”: A philosophical, historical, and sociological introduction to “existential Threats”. Neusis, 31(2).
-Perperidis, G.; Spilios, I.; Simos, M., & Tympas, A. (2025). Integrating Ethics of Technology into a Serious Game: The Case of Tethics. Open Philosophy 8(1): 20250078.
Conferences:
-Elli Danae Vartziotis, Iason Spilios, Aristotle Tympas ‘Global-local interaction regarding Existential Threats: The experience from a paradigmatic case’ accepted for September 2026. More than now: exploring resilient futures, EASST2026, Krakow, Poland.
-Elli Danae Vartziotis, Iason Spilios and Konstantinos Sioumalas ‘Existential threats, comments on articles by Matthias Dörries’, History of Science, STS, and Existential Threats: Research Challenges, ESST Research Workshop at The Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno, Greece, May 2026.
-Iason Spilios, ‘The history of the conceptualization of the climate crisis as an ‘existential threat’, 1st Panhellenic Conference on Environmental History, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece [in Greek], December 2025.
-Iason Spilios, ‘Existential threats: A review of the literature’, EASST-supported workshop: ‘Emblematic localities against existential threats: STSing Balkans, Balkanizing STS’, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece, September 2025.
-‘Understanding Ethical Dilemmas of Contemporary Technology: The EU Project TethicsGame 2024 Approach’, International symposium: Politics of technologies in the digital age II: the digital transformation of the public sphere, University of Ioannina, Greece, November 2024.
Grants/ Fellowships/ Awards:
-Postdoctoral Fellow 2026, Iason Spilios, Research Center for the Humanities, Athens, Greece. Title of Research Proposal: A Critical Examination of the ‘Existential Risk’ field: Polycrisis, and the Imperative of Localization. https://rchumanities.gr/en/fellows-2026/
-Award, Innovation Competition of the Archimedes Technology Transfer and Innovation Unit of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, ‘Opening the black boxes of existential threats, from artificial intelligence to the environmental crisis and genetic engineering: Innovating with platforms and games’ A. Tympas (coordinator), K. Sioumalas, I. Spilios, E. Vartziotis.
24-month applied research project within the National and Kapodistiran University of Athens Research Observatory on Existential Threats and PhEPoC-ST(LAB). Partnering with tech cooperatives (Sociality, Commonspace), the project develops an interactive digital platform and educational game designed to demystify the ‘black boxes’ of advanced AI, biotechnology, and environmental tech, fostering open, participatory governance against global catastrophic risks. https://phepoc-stlab.gr/?page_id=1857 [in Greek]
-Ph.D. dissertation fellowship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), 2022.
Erasmus+, 2015.
Teaching Experience:
-Co-Instructor, History and Philosophy of Technology, Undergraduate Elective Course, Department of Digital Arts and Cinema, NKUA, Fall Semesters 2024-26.
-Co-Instructor, Interdepartmental Program of Graduate Studies in “Science, Technology, Society—Science and Technology Studies”, Course: Science, Technology, Ethics, PHS department, NKUA, Fall Semester 2025.
