Takis C. Vidalis is a lawyer, PhD from the University of Athens (1995). Senior researcher and legal advisor of the Hellenic National Commission for Bioethics & Technoethics, he is a senior partner of the "Athens Law Firm - D. Ch. Markatos and Partners".
Since 2005, he has been an EU expert on legal and ethical issues and ethics reviewer for research programmes in Biomedicine and Biotechnology (FP 6, 7, Horizon 2020, ERC), and has also served as an expert for UNESCO.
Author of 8 monographs and more than 60 articles and contributions to international and Greek journals and edited volumes, he has also presented papers in more than 100 international and national conferences and seminars, with main fields of interest in Bioethics, Biolaw, Medical Law and Medical Ethics.
He teaches Biolaw and Bioethics at the International Hellenic University (IHU). He also teaches Artificial Intelligence and Law at the MSc in Sociology of Law at the Law School of the University of Athens, "Medical Ethics and Bioethics" at the e-learning programme of the University of Athens and at the MSc in Bioethics at the Medical School of the University of Thrace. In the past, he taught for several years at the Law School of the University of Athens, at the MSc in Bioethics of the University of Crete, at the National School of Judges and at the National School of Public Administration.
Member of several law-making committees, mainly on Health and Research issues (transplants, umbilical cord blood banks, rights of patients in dementia, establishment of Research Ethics Committees - RECs).
He was chairman of the REC at the National Research Centre ‘Demokritos’ (2018 - 2024) and member of RECs at the University of Crete and the Athens University of Economics and Business.
T. Vidalis directs the new series of international publications "Biolaw in the 21st Century" (Trivent Publ.) and is a member of the 15-member European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (European Commission) since 2022.