Dr Gianna Katsiampoura is a historian of  Science specialized in Critical Studies of Science.. She is Assistant Professor on History of Science and Critical Education at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has also taught at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, at the University of Crete and the University of Thessaly and she has been researcher in National Hellenic Research Foundation. She has graduated from the Department of Philosophy, University of Athens and has gained an Master of Arts degree on ‘History and Philosophy of Science and Technology’ from the National Technical University of Athens. She has been awarded her PhD from the Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Social and Political Science, Athens in 2004. The title of her PhD Thesis is Perception, Transmission and Function of Science in Middle Byzantine Era and the Quadrivium of 1008. She has also taught at the University of Crete and the University of Thessaly.
.She has published papers on History and Philosophy of Science  in referred journals such as Archives d’ Histoire des Sciences (Brepols), Almagest (Brepols), Science & Education (Springer) and in the Proceedings of International and National Conferences. Her research interests include history and philosophy of science, gender and the history of science, Critical Education, history of education and the relation between history of science and political and economic history.
She is assistant editor of Almagest, correspondent member of International Academy of the History of Science,  secretary/treasurer of  the IDTC-Inter-divisional Teaching Commission (DLMPST/IUHPST/DHST/IHPST), vice-president of Hellenic National Committee of the History of Science and Technology, στην Division of Science and Technology/International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. She is, also member of the Editorial Advisory Board of  Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (http://www.jceps.com/) and member of the Editorial Board of Κριτική Εκπαίδευση http://epub.lib.uoa.gr/index.php/kritekp/index