Education: -PhD Candidate, History of Science & Technology, University of Manchester, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), Manchester, UK, 2026;
-European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Summer School, “Anthropocene Histories”,
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2025;
-MSc Political Science and History, Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University, Athens, Greece, 2022;
-MSc Climate Crisis, Risks, and Disasters, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece, 2020;
-BSc Physics, Department of Physics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece, 2017.
Dissertation title:
Threatened Species Data and the IUCN Red List: Science Diplomacy in the Making (1930s–1990s).
Fully funded by the ERC Advanced Grant NEWORLD@A: Negotiating World Research Data. A Science Diplomacy Study.
Research Experience:
-NEWORLD@A – Negotiating World Research Data: A Science Diplomacy Study. University of Manchester (CHSTM), 2023 – 2026. ERC Advanced Grant, https://neworldata.org
-InsSciDE – Inventing a shared Science Diplomacy for Europe. Friedrich Alexander University (FAU), Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany, 2022. Horizon 2020, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/770523
Publications:
-Mikros, Sotiris (forthcoming 2027) “Clearing Asymmetries: Data, Authority, and the Making of the IUCN as a ‘Global’ Clearing House.” In Gemma Cirac-Claveras and Simone Turchetti (eds.), Data Asymmetries. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-Mikros, Sotiris (2022) “Security for whom? Science diplomacy and security in EU-Africa relations.” In Mays C, Laborie L, Griset P (eds) Inventing a shared science diplomacy for Europe: Interdisciplinary case studies to think with history. Zenodo. Available at: https://zenodo.org/records/6590097#.YrlvpnZByQp
Conferences:
-53rd Annual Meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)
8–11 Oct 2026, Alexandroupolis, Greece. Paper: “Data Structures of Extinction: Authority and the Making of Global Conservation”.
-ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting 2026, Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences 13–16 July 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland. Paper: “Clearing Asymmetries: Data, Authority & the Making of the IUCN as an International Clearinghouse”.
-ESHS Early Career Network Conference, 9–12 Sep 2025, CHSTM, University of Manchester. Paper: “Threatened Species Data in the 1950s. Preservation of Colonial Asymmetries as the Foundation of Key Conservation Tools”.
-Planetary Futures: Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene , 18-19 Sep 2025, CHSTM, University of Manchester. Paper: “The Politics of Threatened Species Data”
-5th Conference of the New Diplomatic History Network, 25–27 May 2023, Turku, Finland. Paper: “Science Diplomacy in EU-Africa Relations”.
-15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations – Pandemonium: Interrogating the Apocalyptic Imaginaries of our Time, 1–4 Sep 2022, Athens, Greece. Paper: “The notion of security in EU-Africa relations during the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) implementation period”.
-InsSciDE Concluding Conference – New Horizons for Science Diplomacy
23–24 June 2022, Paris, France. Paper: “Security for whom? Science Diplomacy and Security in EU-Africa relations”.
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant, The Nuclear Age: Global Nuclear Threats from Hiroshima to Today, University of Manchester, UCIL31212, UCIL31712, 2024 – 2025, 2025 – 2026