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Education: <\/strong> Dissertation title:<\/strong> Publications:<\/strong> Conferences:<\/strong> Fellowships\/ Awards\/ Distinctions:<\/strong>
\n-PhD Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece;
\n-MSc, Science, Technology, Society\u2014Science and Technology Studies’, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece (2024);
\n-MSc, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA (2022);
\n-BS, Chemical and Process Engineering, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany (2018).<\/p>\n
\nSTS perspectives on the integration of AI into the pursuit of Environmental Sustainability<\/p>\n
\n-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<\/em>, 193-210.
\n-Vartziotis, E. D., Spilios, I., & Tympas, A. (under publication). Localizing Existential Threats: Reflections from the Workshop \u201cSTSing Balkans, Balkanizing STS.\u201d EASST Review \/ European Association for the Study of Science and Technology<\/em>.
\n-Vartziotis, E. D., Vartziotis. T., Dellatolas, I., Dasoulas, G., Keckeisen, M., & Tympas, A. (under review). \u201cClimate is now a data problem: On portraying AI as a solution to the existential risks of the environmental crisis.\u201d
\n-Vartziotis, E. D., Vartziotis. T., Dasoulas, G., Dellatolas, I., Dominici, F., Kotsopoulos, S., & Tympas, A. (under review). \u201cEnvironmental AI Research Priorities: What They Reveal About Optimism and Misalignment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n-Vartziotis, E.D., & Tympas, T., \u201cOn the co-shaping of AI and environmental research: The view from leading science news journals,\u201d 17th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference, NESS 2026, Uppsala, Sweden, 2026.
\n-Vartziotis, E.D., & Tympas, T., \u201cEvaluating Existential Risks\/Threats: Institutional Approaches and Criteria\u201d, Workshop titled \u201e\u2026never neutral\u201c\u2014Practices, concepts and methods of evaluating technology over the last 50 years, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, June 2026.
\n-Vartziotis, E.D., & Tympas, T., (Panel Organizers) \u201cMapping the “End of the World”: An Institutional Landscape of Existential Risk Research,\u201d STS NL 2026, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, 2026.
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\n-Vartziotis, E. D., et al., \u201cAI as the Environmental Savior? A Critical Review of Relevant Literature from Media Sources,\u201d 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S): Reverberations, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Seattle, USA, 2025.
\n-Vartziotis, E. D., \u201cExistential threats and their interconnection: A review of the use of Artificial Intelligence for the environmental crisis,\u201d Emblematic Localities Against Existential Threats: STSing Balkans, Balkanizing STS, EASST, Delphi, Greece, 2025.
\n-Vartziotis, E. D., et al., \u201cWill A.I. Ruin the Planet or Save the Planet?: An STS approach to the Connection Between A.I. and Climate Change,\u201d 10th STS Italia Conference: Technoscience for Good \u2013 Designing, Caring, and Reconfiguring, STS Italia, Milan, Italy, 2025.
\n-Kazantzas, P., Vartziotis, E. D., & Tympas, A., \u201c\u2018Artificial Intelligence is Fueling Energy Transition\u2019: Well, Let\u2019s Take It to the History of \u2018Smart Grids\u2019,\u201d 11th Tensions of Europe Conference: Transformations. Fundamental Change and Technology, Tensions of Europe, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, 2024.
\n-Vartziotis, E. D., et al., \u201cOn Saving, Supposedly, the Environment Through AI: A Critical Review of Relevant Literature from Major Science Journals,\u201d EASST and 4S Conference: Making and doing transformations, EASST and 4S, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2024.
\n-Vartziotis, E. D., Siamanta, Z. C., & Tympas, A., \u201c\u2018Could Artificial Intelligence Save Our Planet?\u2019 A Half-Century History of Answers,\u201d Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context, University of Virginia, Online (USA), 2024.
\n-Vartziotis, E. D., et al., \u201cModeling Inundation Flooding in Urban Environments Using Density Functional Theory,\u201d EURO-C 2022, Computational Modeling of Concrete and Concrete Structures, Obergurgl, Austria, 2022.<\/p>\n
\nFellowships:<\/strong>
\n-George and Marie Vergottis Fellowship, 2019 (Nine months: Standard tuition, student health insurance, student life fee, and standard stipend)
\n-Research Scholarship, MIT, 2019 (2020-2022: Standard tuition, student health insurance, student life fee, and standard stipend)
\nDistinction:<\/strong>
\n-Master\u2019s 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
\nAward:<\/strong>
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\nResearch Projects:<\/strong>
\n-Observatory for Research on Existential Threats: AI, Climate Change, Human-Made Pandemics
\nEthics4Challenges (E4C), EU Erasmus+ Project, Researcher, NKUA Team, https:\/\/ethics4challenges.eu<\/a>
\n-Blooming AI, EU Erasmus+ Project, Researcher, NKUA Team, https:\/\/bloomingai.uia.no<\/a>
\nLaboratory of Philosophy, Ethics, Policy and Communication of Science and Technology, Member, NKUA, https:\/\/www.phs.uoa.gr\/tmima\/ergastiria<\/a><\/p>\n