Go-JuST

Stathis Arapostathis

Principal Investigator

Efstathios Arapostathis is a Professor of History of Science and Technology at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the National University of Athens. After studying Physics, Stathis Arapostathis turned to the history and sociology of science and technology. His doctoral thesis was prepared at the Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof. Robert Fox. He then worked for years as a postdoctoral researcher in Great Britain in research programs at the universities: University of Leeds, University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh and University of Cardiff. Since 2012 he has been teaching at the National University of Athens, initially as a lecturer and since 2020 as an associate professor. He has been a visiting researcher with a Fulbright scholarship at the Center of Science and Innovation Studies, Law School, University of California at Davis (UC Davis) (2016), a visiting researcher at the Center of Hellenic Studies, Princeton University (2019), at CEPED, University Cite, Paris (2022-23), a visiting professor at the Science, Technology, Society Unit at the University of Graz, Austria (2023), a visiting researcher with a scholarship from IFRIS at the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences, Innovation, Society (LISIS)/INRAE ​​(2023). He has participated as a researcher and as a scientific manager in international and national competitive research programs. He is the scientific manager of the HFRI project entitled “Go-JuST: Governing Just Sociotechnical Transitions”. He has published a book on the history of innovation with Graeme Gooday published by MIT Press. He has edited and co-edited 8 collective volumes in international publishing houses and international scientific journals in crisis and has written about 40 articles in scientific journals after the crisis and 10 chapters in collective volumes in international publishing houses after the crisis. His scientific research interests concern the social dimensions and social components of scientific and technological innovations and the consequences that innovations shape on society, economy and industry. He deals with the relationship between science, technology and processes of innovative transformation of society. He researches issues of the introduction and formation of innovation in agri-food, energy and the environment and for the last five years he has been dealing with the conditions for the formation of new value chains by research groups in the agri-food and pharmaceutical industries.