Dr. Konstantinos Kalachanis
Graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a PhD in Philosophy. He also holds a postgraduate specialization diploma in “Environment and Health: Capaciry building for decision making” from the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where, from 2012 to the present, he has taught the courses “Bioethics”, “Humanity and the Environment in the Hippocratic Corpus”, and “Environmental Sociology”.
From 2013 to 2017, he also taught the course “Cancer and Environment” in the postgraduate programme of the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “Neoplastic Disease in Humans: Diagnosis, Modern Treatment and Research”. From 2012 to 2016, he served as an unpaid scientific associate at the Section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics of the Department of Physics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
His research interests include the History and Philosophy of the Natural Sciences and Astronomy, Ancient Greek and Byzantine Philosophy, Bioethics, the evolution of Cosmology from antiquity to the modern era, as well as the environmental impacts on human health. He has published more than 100 scientific papers in reputable Greek and international peer-reviewed journals, as well as in conference proceedings, and has also edited volumes of conference proceedings.
He is the General Secretary of the International Association for Ancient Greek Philosophy and a member of the Union of Greek Physicists. From 2019 to 2023, he served as Research Coordinator at New York College, where he has been teaching for several years. He was also a member of the Department of Doctoral Studies, in collaboration with the University of Bolton in the United Kingdom.
He has also worked in the Research and Development Department of Ellinogermaniki Agogi, specifically in the implementation of European programmes. Since 2023, he has been serving in secondary education, initially as a substitute teacher and, since 2024, as a newly appointed permanent teacher.