Dr Efthymios Nicolaidis
Director of research
National Hellenic Research Foundation
Athens, Greece
Biography
Born 1954, Athens, Greece.
Studies (in France): 1978, Maîtrise de physique ; 1980, Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies en Histoire des sciences ; 1983, Doctorat en histoire des sciences
Professional career
1979-1984: Scientific Collaborator of the Programme of the Solar Corona (University of Athens-Observatoire de Paris-Meudon).
1984-1990: Researcher, history of science, at the Institute of Neohellenic Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
1990: Assistant Research Professor, National Hellenic Research Foundation.
1995: Associate Research Professor, National Hellenic Research Foundation.
2001: Director of Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation (Director of the Programme History, Philosophy and Didactics of Science and Technology, Institute for Historical Research).
International distinctions
President of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology / Division of History of Science and Technology (2013-2017)
Permanent secretary of the International Academy of the History of Science (2017-2020).
Laureate 2013 of a Chaire Internationale Blaise Pascal, ENS, France.
Scientific journals, book series
Co-editor of Almagest, International Journal for the history of scientific ideas (Brepols publishers).
Editor of the series ‘Science and Orthodox Christianity’, Brepols publishers.
Member of the scientific committee of Revue d’histoire des sciences
Member of the editorial committee of Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences
Member of the editorial committee of Studies in Ottoman Science
Member of the editorial committee of Histoire de la recherche contemporaine.
Visiting professorships
Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2011), Université de Nantes (2012 and 2015), Observatoire de Paris (Ecole doctorale d’astronomie-astrophysique de l’Ile-de-France, 2014-2017); invited scholar in several Research Centers and Universities in Europe, USA and China.
Research Projects
Coordinator of fourteen research Projects. Last funded projects: Hephaestus, 2009-2012, Hellenic Philosophy, History and Environmental Science Teaching Under Scrutiny, EU, FP7-Capacities-RegPot-2008-1, 229825. DACALBO, 2012-2015, Digital archive concerning alchemy in Byzantium and in Greek-speaking communities of the Ottoman Empire and educational as well as cultural utilization of this archive, National Strategic Research Framework (Thales). NARSES, 2012-2015, Nature and Religion in South Eastern European Space: Mapping Science and eastern Christianity relations in South Eastern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean, National Strategic Research Framework (Aristeia). SOW, 2016-2023, Science and Orthodoxy around the World, TWCF.
Publications
Author and editor of 19 books and author of more than 90 articles and book chapters.
Main publications on the history of the relations between science and Orthodox Christianity, on the history of astronomy on science in Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire, on the history of science policy, on scientific cultural identity, and on the spreading of the classical science (17th-19th c.).
Long CV and publications: http://www.hpdst.gr/users/efthymios-nicolaidis
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Christianity-Orthodoxy, History of Science
Science & Technology Interests
Cosmology, Evolution, Physics
Website
Publications
Science and Eastern Orthodoxy. From the Greek Fathers to the age of globalization
Hopkins UP 2011
