Sophia Efstathiou

About

I work in philosophy of science, ethics of technology and art-based approaches to philosophy and responsible research and innovation (RRI). I have worked as an "embedded philosopher" in different interdisciplinary science projects, including in complexity science, systems biology, and biotechnology. I want to stimulate and exercise response-ability in science, through humanities and arts resources.

From Spring 2020 I am leading the four-year KLIMAFORSK project MEATigation : Towards sustainable meat-use in Norwegian food practices for climate mitigation. The project is a collaboration across the Social Sciences Humanities and Arts and Norwegian business and cultural actors with the aim to explore and transform Norwegian food practices towards reducing meat use.
- You can listen to my argument for 'How industrialised meat production is ironically facilitating the end of meat', here --Thank you to my hosts -- CONEF: Configuring Environment and Food: Critical Techno-Scientific Networks and the Agri-food Sector in Greece, and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
From February 2021 I am also leading part of the three-year HORIZON2020 project ISEED: Inclusive Science and European Democracies. The project joins EU and Latin American partners to explore what we might learn from engaging people in citizen science to engage people in inclusive knowledge-based democratic deliberation in Europe.

At NTNU I coordinate the Research group for APPlied Ethics RAPP.

I hold a first Master of Physics degree in Mathematics and Physics (Warwick, 2000), an MA in Philosophy (2006) and PhD in Philosophy and Science Studies (2009) from University of California, San Diego on The use of race as a variable in biomedical research. My research has received EU, RCN, NSF, Max Planck and White funding.

Publications

2021

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2021) Meat we don’t greet: How ‘sausages’ can save pigs or how effacing livestock makes room for emancipation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Morris, Carol; Kaljonen, Minna; Aavik, Kadri; Balázs, Bálint; Cole, Matthew; Coles, Ben. (2021) Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Academic article

2020

Efstathiou, Sophia; Börjessen, Johan. (2020) Beyond Measure: Art and knowledge in the age of over-measuring. Trondheim Kunstmuseum
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2020) Measuring the Everyday in Science: Found Science by analogy to Found Art.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Swierstra, Tsjalling; Efstathiou, Sophia. (2020) Knowledge repositories. In digital knowledge we trust. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy
Academic article

2019

Pérez, Elena; Efstathiou, Sophia; Swierstra, Tsjalling. (2019) Getting our hands dirty with technology -The role of the performing arts in technological development. Peripeti
Academic article
Efstathiou, Sophia; Korsnes, Marius; Gabrielsen, Ane Møller; Finstad, Terje; Giæver, Fay; Driessen, Clemens. (2019) lnvestigating the elasticity of meat consumption for climate mitigation: 4Rs for responsible meat use. Wageningen Academic Publishers
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) Facing animal research: Levinas and technologies of effacement. SUNY Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Efstathiou, Sophia; Nydal, Rune; Lægreid, Astrid; Kuiper, Martin. (2019) Scientific knowledge in the age of computation: Explicated, computable and manageable?. Theoria. An international Journal of Theory, History and Foundations of Science
Academic article

2018

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Verlag Karl Alber
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Efstathiou, Sophia; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2018) Appreciation Through Use: How Industrial Technology Articulates an Ecology of Values Around Norwegian Seaweed. Philosophy & Technology
Academic article
Murray-Leslie, Alexandra; Efstathiou, Sophia; Teran, Michelle; Haykowsky, Mika; Brunner, Johanna; Einarsdottir, Unnur Andrea. (2018) ALL WOMEN’S NETWORKED JAM SESSION (AWNJS).
Performing Arts

2017

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2017) Performance and Philosophy of Science: Trashfiguring Epistemic Cultures Through the Performance Art of FYTA.
Chapter

2016

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2016) Genetics and Racial Minorities in the United States. Wiley-Blackwell
Encyclopedia article
De Grandis, Giovanni; Efstathiou, Sophia. (2016) Introduction: Grand challenges and small steps. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Editorial
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2016) Is it possible to give scientific solutions to Grand Challenges? On the idea of Grand Challenges for life science research. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Academic article

2015

Efstathiou, Sophia; De Grandis, Giovanni. (2015) Joint first editors of a Special Section on "Interdisciplinary Integration: The Real Grand Challenge for the Life Sciences?". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Editorial

2014

Efstathiou, Sophia; Mirmalek, Zara. (2014) Interdisciplinarity In Action. Oxford University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Artistic productions

Murray-Leslie, Alexandra; Efstathiou, Sophia; Teran, Michelle; Haykowsky, Mika; Brunner, Johanna; Einarsdottir, Unnur Andrea. (2018) ALL WOMEN’S NETWORKED JAM SESSION (AWNJS).
Performing Arts

Books

Efstathiou, Sophia; Börjessen, Johan. (2020) Beyond Measure: Art and knowledge in the age of over-measuring. Trondheim Kunstmuseum
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Part of book/report

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2021) Meat we don’t greet: How ‘sausages’ can save pigs or how effacing livestock makes room for emancipation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2020) Measuring the Everyday in Science: Found Science by analogy to Found Art.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Efstathiou, Sophia; Korsnes, Marius; Gabrielsen, Ane Møller; Finstad, Terje; Giæver, Fay; Driessen, Clemens. (2019) lnvestigating the elasticity of meat consumption for climate mitigation: 4Rs for responsible meat use. Wageningen Academic Publishers
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) Facing animal research: Levinas and technologies of effacement. SUNY Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Verlag Karl Alber
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2017) Performance and Philosophy of Science: Trashfiguring Epistemic Cultures Through the Performance Art of FYTA.
Chapter
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2016) Genetics and Racial Minorities in the United States. Wiley-Blackwell
Encyclopedia article
Efstathiou, Sophia; Mirmalek, Zara. (2014) Interdisciplinarity In Action. Oxford University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nydal, Rune; Efstathiou, Sophia; Lægreid, Astrid. (2012) Crossover Research: Exploring a Collaborative Mode of Integration. IOS Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2012) Beauty and health as medical norms: The case of Nazi medicine. Acumen Publishing
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Media

2021

Lecture

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2021) Design and Technologies of Effacement. Department of Design NTNU Design Dialogues #2 Designing Sustainable Food Futures 2021-06-14 -
Lecture

Efstathiou, Sophia; De Grandis, Giovanni. (2021) Two Games for Irresponsible Research and Innovation: -Virtuous and Villainous Designs -Project Demons and Superheroes. ONE AFINO - MANY VALUES How to build a well-integrated network while welcoming diversity 2021-10-18 - 2021-10-19

2019

Lecture

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) A Role for the Arts in RRI - An argument for Science, Humanities and Arts Knowledge Exercises SHAKE . Cornell University Media Studies Colloquium 2019-04-25 -
Academic lecture

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) Recognise, Reduce, Replace, Refine: 4Rs for sustainable meat use. Animal Ethics for Sustainability: Clean food, biodiversity and sustainable development 2019-11-28 - 2019-11-29
Academic lecture

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) Being an Embedded Philosopher in the Lab. Learning from Empirical Approaches to History and Philosophy of Science , Leibniz University Hannover 2019-07-25 - 2019-07-27
Academic lecture

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) Visions of the Natural, Wild and Pure in Nazi Animal Ethics and Policy: An Account of Nazi ‘aesthethics’. GSA German Studies Association Meeting , Portland 2019-10-04 - 2019-10-06
Lecture

Korsnes, Marius; Efstathiou, Sophia; Giulia, Sonetti. (2019) The Skills you Need to Succeed with Interdisciplinary Teamwork. Helen Gansmo, Tverrfaglige Kulturstudier, NTNU HIP Konferansen , Trondheim 2019-02-06 -

2018

Lecture

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Acceptance - Being open to new ideas. Sophia Efstathiou and Marius Korsnes Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Research: Skills for Collaboration and Communication , Trondhjem Kunstforening 2018-03-01 - 2018-03-02
Interview

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) På Høyden På Høyden [Newspaper] 2018-01-22
Interview

Efstathiou, Sophia; Hovdal Moan, Marit; Østli Jakobsen, Hanne. (2018) Morgenbladet Morgenbladet [Newspaper] 2018-02-23
Academic lecture

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Training response-abilities through performance. ELSA Norway 2018-11-02 - 2018-11-04

2017

Academic lecture

Efstathiou, Sophia; Gabrielsen, Ane Møller. (2017) Key Challenges to RRI: How feminist theory and art matter. Sophia Efstathiou and Elena Perez Response/Ability Exercises in Responsible Research and Innovation from science, humanities and arts perspectives 2017-11-17 - 2017-11-18
Lecture

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2017) Data, doxa and delta: The metaphysics of the alphabet or facing signs. Athens Biennale; FYTA Documena 2017 , Bagkeion, Athens 2017-04-15 - 2017-04-16

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