Education:
-PhD Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens;
-MSc Science, Society and Technology Studies, NKUA;
-ΜA Business Administration and Management, AUEB.
Dissertation title:
Technological Maintenance and Economic Alternatives: Historical and Methodological Dimensions for circular economies and sustainable growth
Publications:
-Faras, A., & Tympas, A. ([2026]). “Πέρα από το ανθρώπινο λάθος: Πολυπλοκότητα, συντήρηση και κρίσιμες τεχνολογικές υποδομές” [Beyond human error: Complexity, maintenance and critical technological infrastructures]. In Στις ράγες του τραύματος. Τέμπη: μνήμη, αγώνας, δικαιοσύνη [On the rails of trauma. Tempi: memory, struggle, justice]. [Εκδόσεις Τόπος].
-Faras, A. (2025). “Infrastructuring across epistemic cultures: Co-Designing the VOLARE digital commons of learning and care.” In Voices of displacement: Testimony-based multimodal pedagogies (pp. 182–192). National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
-Velegrakis, G., & Faras, A. (2025). “Από την καινοτομία στη διατήρηση: Περιβαλλοντικές διαστάσεις της τεχνολογικής συσσώρευσης” [From innovation to preservation: Environmental dimensions of technological accumulation]. Αυτόματον, 3(2), 80–101.
-Minotakis, A., & Faras, A. (2024). “Nothing is Inevitable but Class Struggle: A Workerist Perspective on AI Regulation.” tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 22(2), 630–645.
-Faras, A. (forthcoming). “The Ethics of Maintenance: Ethics Education and Professional Responsibility in Technological Practice.” Collective Volume. Aalborg University Press.
-Co-author team (2024). Μπροστά στον τεχνολογικό καθρέφτη: Αναλύοντας τις κοινωνικές αντανακλάσεις της τεχνολογίας [In front of the technological mirror: Analysing the social reflections of technology]. Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Conferences:
-Faras, A., Papazafeiropoulou, S. A., & Tympas, A., “Starting stories for a Digital Mobility Monitor (DMM) panel on a paradigmatic Southern European experience: The case of Greece,” Alternative Mobilities: Transitions to Better Futures – 4TU Workshop on Preparing a Digital Mobility Monitor, TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2026.
-Faras, A., “Mobility between Technology and Mythology in the Vale Next to Mount Olympus,” T2M Annual Conference “Cross-Border Mobility: Migration, Logistics and Geopolitics,” Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary, 2026.
-Faras, A., “The Capitalist Mode of Production and the Maintenance of Technology: A Marxist Perspective,” Historical Materialism Athens Conference, Athens, Greece, 2025.
-Faras, A., “Criti-Hype: What is Left of the Criticism to Emerging, World-Changing Technologies, When They Don’t Emerge or Change the World?,” Historical Materialism Istanbul Conference, Istanbul, Türkiye, 2024.
Fellowships/ Awards/ Distinctions:
-TPE Doctoral Fellowship Remarque Institute NYU, Jan. 2027 – May 2027
-Visiting Scholar at Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU, June 2026
-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)
-Researcher, ETHICS4CHALLENGES (E4C) – Erasmus+ project, European Inter-University Association on Society, Science and Technology (ESST).
-Researcher, 100memories (T2EDK-04827) and ppWEBGIS (T2EDK-01288), “Research–Create–Innovate” action (Ερευνώ–Δημιουργώ–Καινοτομώ), Greece.
-Member, Digital Mobility Monitor (DMM) network, 2026.
