Dr. Konstantinos Kalachanis
New York College, Athens, Greece
https://uoa.academia.edu/KostasKalachanis
Graduate of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy, and Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Doctor of Philosophy. Holds a postgraduate diploma in specialization in “Environment and Health, capacity buikding for decision making” from the Medical School of the University of Athens.
Since 2012, he has been teaching the courses “Bioethics,” “Man & Environment in the Hippocratic Work,” and “Environmental Sociology.” Additionally, from 2013-2017, he taught the course “Cancer and Environment” in the postgraduate program of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens on the subject “Neoplastic disease in humans: Diagnosis, contemporary treatment, and research.” At the Medical School of NKUA, he also teaches in the undergraduate program, the course on Humanistic Medicine.
From 2012 to 2016, he served as an unpaid research fellow in the section of Astrophysics-Astronomy-Engineering of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Athens. His research interests include the History and Philosophy of Science and Astronomy, Ancient Greek and Byzantine Philosophy, Bioethics, the evolution of Cosmology from ancient to modern times, and the environmental impacts on human health.
He has published over 100 scientific articles in reputable Greek and international scientific journals with peer review, as well as in conference proceedings, and has edited volumes of conference proceedings. He is the Secretary General of the International Scientific Association of Ancient Greek Philosophy and a member of the Greek Physicists Society. Since 2019, he has been the Research Coordinator at New York College, where he has been teaching for several years, and was also a member of the Doctoral Studies Department in collaboration with the University of Bolton, England. In 2023, he worked in the Research and Development Department of Ellinogermaniki Agogi in European programs. Since 2023, he serves as a substitute philologist in secondary education.