Our Team

Gina Gotsi is a graduate of the Athens Law School. She completed her postgraduate studies in Philosophy of Law at the Athens Law School, as well as in "History of European Legal Thought" at the University of Paris 1-Pantheon Sorbonne. With a scholarship from the Swiss Confederation, and the Afendoulis Foundation, she completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Lausanne, on "Neuroscience in criminal courts: from responsibility to risk". She worked as a research assistant at the interdisciplinary Platform "Ethos" of the University of Lausanne and from 2012 to 2016 as a research assistant at the Research Department of the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry of the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV). With an ICF fellowship, she completed postdoctoral research at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens and was a research associate in the Departments of Criminal Sciences and History and Theory of Law of the same faculty. She has taught at undergraduate level as a research fellow and at postgraduate level in Applied Ethics and Bioethics, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy, Introduction to the Science of Law, Methodology of Law and Theory of Law and Institutions at the Law School of the University of Athens and the University of Thessaloniki, the Department of Biology of the University of Patras, the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the University of Thessaloniki, as well as the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens. Her research interests focus on the relationship between neuroscience, psychiatry and law, neuroethics, neurocriminology, philosophy of law, and the rights of the mentally ill in the light of new technologies. She is conducting her second postdoctoral research at the Department of History and Theory of Law, Athens Law School. She has numerous publications in Greek, English and French in international journals and books and has participated in numerous conferences and workshops in Greece and abroad. She is a regular member of the research ethics committee of the Hellenic Research Centre "Demokritos" and the National Centre for Social Research. She is also a member of the Hellenic Association of Philosophy of Law and the Hellenic Society of Criminal Law.

Dimitris Thanos studied Biology at the University of Athens (1983). PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Crete (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas). He was postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University, USA (1989-1994) in the field of regulation of gene expression, receiving a Lucille P. Markey postdoctoral fellowship. Assistant Professor (1995), Tenured Associate Professor (2000), Adjunct Professor (2003-2015) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University School of Medicine, New York. Director (2001) of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the Alexander Fleming Research Centre for Biomedical Sciences in Greece. Since March 2006, Chairman of the Scientific Council and Director of the Basic Research Center of the Biomedical Research Foundation / Academy of Athens. He discovered the enhanceosome, the basic molecular switch through which gene activity (expression) is regulated in humans and other organisms. He has published a number of articles and editorials in leading scientific journals in the field (Cell, Nature, Science, etc.). His published work has received about 14,000 citations in the literature. His findings are described in detail in all textbooks of molecular and cellular biology taught in schools of biology and medicine in Greece and abroad. He has been repeatedly awarded for the international recognition of his work. He is a regular member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO, 2004), Academia Europaea , the European Research Council (ERC) Research Programme Review Committee. He is the founder of the Greek Genome Center, national representative in the European Strategy for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and the European Training Committee of the Horizon 2020 Programme (2014-2020), member of the Board of Directors of the European Research Infrastructures for Biobanks and Systems Biology.
He is a full member of the Academy of Athens since 2016.

Irini Tountasaki is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. She has served as Director of the Postgraduate Programme "Social and Cultural Anthropology" (2016-2018) and as Chair of the Department (2020-2022). Her scientific interests focus on the following fields: anthropological theories of kinship, new forms of kinship and reproductive medicine, biopolitics, ideologies and technologies of parenthood and familiality, transnational/interracial adoption, Greek ethnography. Her study “Transnational/interracial adoption: 'Mild migration' and new geographies of kinship” (2022) is published by Pataki Publications.

Nikos Koumoutzis is an Associate Professor at the University of Nicosia, where he teaches Greek Civil Law, holds a Master's degree (DEA) from the University of Bordeaux I, specializing in Private Law, and a PhD from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (for his thesis on: "Parental care of a child born out of wedlock and the father's right to family life" - Athens Academy Award 2011). His main research interests include, inter alia, human rights and family law, in particular the law of medical assistance in human reproduction. He is a lawyer, a member of the Athens Bar Association, the Association of Greek Civil Lawyers, the Medical Law and Bioethics Group, the Family Law Society, and a contributor to the journal "Chronicles of Private Law".