  Yiannis Garyfallos is a PhD candidate
at the Graduate Program in the History and Philosophy of Science and
Technology that is offered jointly by the Philosophy and History of
Science Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens, and the Humanities and Social Studies Sector of the Applied
Mathematics and Natural Sciences School of the National Technical
University of Athens. He holds a MA degree from the aforementioned
Graduate Program, and a Diploma from the Philosophy and History of
Science Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens.
The first phase of his PhD research was
supported by a fellowship from the Greek State Fellowship Foundation.
He participated as a research assistant in several projects on the
history of technology in Greece, awarded to the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens and the National Technical
University of Athens between 2005 and 2007. He is currently
participating in the Inventing Europe/Eurocrit Research Program as a
member of the Greek Associated Project's team. He is a member of
the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), the Tensions of
Europe network (ToE) and the Science and Technology in the European
Periphery research Group (STEP). He speaks Greek, English and German.
Ioannis Garyfallos
PhD Candidate
Department of History and Philosophy of
Science (M.I.Th.E.)
University of Athens / National
Technical University of Athens
post: 30, Kefallinias Str. 11257
Athens, Greece
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Presentations of work
- "The Biggest
Aqueduct in Europe: Contradicting Engineering Calculations about
Athens and its Water Supply", in: The
Greek City in Historical Perspective, ed. Lydia Sapounaki-Drakaki,
European Association for Urban History, Dionikos, Athens, (2005) (in
Greek, with S. Tzokas and A. Tympas).
- "Transnational
Energy Flows and Blackout Risks in a Balkan European Context",
Second EUROCRIT Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden
(May 2008) (with E. Arapostathis and A. Tympas)
- "Presentation of
the PhD Project", History of Technology
Workshop in the framework of European Science Foundation's
EUROCORES Program Technology and the Making of Europe, 1850 to the
Present (Inventing Europe), Plovdiv, Bulgaria, (29 February-1 March
2008).
- "Transnational
Power Linking and De-linking in the Balkans during the Cold War: The
Greek Aspect", EUROCORES / Tensions of
Europe Cold War Technology Summer School Program, Chios, Greece and
Izmir Turkey (27 August-1 September 2007).
- "Changing
conceptualizations of technological risks and accidents in the
transition from national to transnational European networks", Third
Plenary Conference of the ‘Tensions of Europe' Network,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, (7-10 June 2007) (with E. Arapostathis,
K. Vlantoni, and A. Tympas).
- "The AC-DC Debate
Revisited: The Greek Experience",
Integrating and Fragmenting Europe: The Role of Infrastructures,
1850-2000, First Summer School for Tensions of Europe Graduate
Training, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux
University, France, (18-22 September 2006).
- "On the
Spontaneous History of Engineering Textbooks", in: International
Network for Engineering Studies (INES), Locating Engineers:
Education, Knowledge, Desire, Virginia Tech, Richmond, USA, (10-13
September 2006) (with S. Tzokas and A. Tympas).
- "Beloved Buttons,
Hateful Lines: Fragmented Conceptions of Technology", Technology:
Between Enthusiasm and Resistance, TEER 2005 Conference, Jyvaskyla,
Finland, (10-11 May 2005) (with K. Vlantoni and A. Tympas).
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EUROCRIT is a research project in Inventing Europe , a EUROCORES programme coordinated by the European Science Foundation. It
seeks to gain a better understanding of risks in the construction and
governance of European infrastructures.