Sophia Efstathiou

Senior Researcher

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty of Humanities

sophia.efstathiou@ntnu.no +47 40100566

Låven, 245, Dragvoll

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.

Scientific, academic and artistic work

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Journal publications

Morris, Carol; Kaljonen, Minna; Aavik, Kadri; Balázs, Bálint; Cole, Matthew; Coles, Ben; Efstathiou, Sophia; Fallon, Tracey; Foden, Mike; Giraud, Eva; Goodman, Mike; Kershaw, Eleanor Hadley; Helliwell, Richard; Hobson-West, Pru; Häyry, Matti; Jallinoja, Piia; Jones, Matt; Kaarlenkaski, Taija; Laihonen, Maarit; Lahteenmaki-Utela, Anu; Kupsala, Saara; Lonlika, Annika; Martens, Lydia; McGlacken, Renelle; Mylan, Josephine; Niva, Mari; Roe, Emma; Twine, Richard; Vinnari, Markus; White, Richard. (2021) Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. vol. 8:38.
Swierstra, Tsjalling; Efstathiou, Sophia. (2020) Knowledge repositories. In digital knowledge we trust. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy. vol. 23.
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. vol. 34 (2).
Pérez, Elena; Efstathiou, Sophia; Swierstra, Tsjalling. (2019) Getting our hands dirty with technology -The role of the performing arts in technological development. Peripeti. vol. 30 (7).
Efstathiou, Sophia; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2018) Appreciation Through Use: How Industrial Technology Articulates an Ecology of Values Around Norwegian Seaweed. Philosophy & Technology. vol. 32 (3).
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. vol. 56.
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. vol. 56.
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. vol. 56.
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2012) How Ordinary Race Concepts Get to Be Usable in Biomedical Science: An Account of Founded Race Concepts. Philosophy of Science. vol. 79 (5).
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2012) The Nazi Cosmetic: Medicine in the Service of Beauty. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. vol. 43 (3).
Cartwright, Nancy; Efstathiou, Sophia. (2011) Hunting causes and using them: Is there no bridge from here to there?. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. vol. 25 (3).

Artistic productions

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

Books

Efstathiou, Sophia; Börjessen, Johan. (2020) Beyond Measure: Art and knowledge in the age of over-measuring. 2020. ISBN 9788292827420.

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. Changing Meat Cultures: Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals.
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2020) Measuring the Everyday in Science: Found Science by analogy to Found Art. Beyond Measure: Art and knowledge in the age of over-measuring.
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) Facing animal research: Levinas and technologies of effacement. Face to face with animals: Lévinas and the animal question.
Efstathiou, Sophia; Korsnes, Marius; Gabrielsen, Ane Møller; Finstad, Terje; Giæver, Fay; Driessen, Clemens; Hansen, Arve; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn. (2019) lnvestigating the elasticity of meat consumption for climate mitigation: 4Rs for responsible meat use. Sustainable governance and management of food systems.
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Im Angesicht der Gesichter: Technologien des Gesichtsverlusts in der Tierforschung. Philosophie der Tierforschung: Band 3 Milieus und Akteure.
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2017) Performance and Philosophy of Science: Trashfiguring Epistemic Cultures Through the Performance Art of FYTA. The Black Book of FYTA.
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2016) Genetics and Racial Minorities in the United States. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Efstathiou, Sophia; Mirmalek, Zara. (2014) Interdisciplinarity In Action. Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction.
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2012) Beauty and health as medical norms: The case of Nazi medicine. HEALTH, ILLNESS AND DISEASE:PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS.
Nydal, Rune; Efstathiou, Sophia; Lægreid, Astrid. (2012) Crossover Research: Exploring a Collaborative Mode of Integration. Little by Little. Expansions of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies.

Others

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2021) Design and Technologies of Effacement. Design Dialogues #2 Designing Sustainable Food Futures . Department of Design NTNU; 2021-06-14.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) Visions of the Natural, Wild and Pure in Nazi Animal Ethics and Policy: An Account of Nazi ‘aesthethics’. German Studies Association Meeting . GSA; Portland. 2019-10-04 - 2019-10-06.
Korsnes, Marius; Efstathiou, Sophia; Giulia, Sonetti. (2019) The Skills you Need to Succeed with Interdisciplinary Teamwork. HIP Konferansen . Helen Gansmo, Tverrfaglige Kulturstudier, NTNU; Trondheim. 2019-02-06.
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Acceptance - Being open to new ideas. Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Research: Skills for Collaboration and Communication . Sophia Efstathiou and Marius Korsnes; Trondhjem Kunstforening. 2018-03-01 - 2018-03-02.
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Sophia starta oppropet #metooakademia. På Høyden [Avis]. 2018-01-22.
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Training response-abilities through performance. ELSA Norway ; 2018-11-02 - 2018-11-04.
Efstathiou, Sophia; Hovdal Moan, Marit; Østli Jakobsen, Hanne. (2018) 20 historier og 661 underskrifter: Tafsing på fagmiddager, trakassering i plenum og faglig baksnakking fra avviste flørtere. #MetooAkademia viser maktmisbruk med bred palett. Morgenbladet [Avis]. 2018-02-23.
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2017) Data, doxa and delta: The metaphysics of the alphabet or facing signs. Documena 2017 . Athens Biennale; FYTA; Bagkeion, Athens. 2017-04-15 - 2017-04-16.
Efstathiou, Sophia; Gabrielsen, Ane Møller. (2017) Key Challenges to RRI: How feminist theory and art matter. Response/Ability Exercises in Responsible Research and Innovation from science, humanities and arts perspectives . Sophia Efstathiou and Elena Perez; 2017-11-17 - 2017-11-18.

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