Doukas Kapantais
Doukas Kapandais was born in 1971 in Athens. He holds two doctorates in philosophy (Paris-Sorbonne 2000, and Bern 2007) in Aristotelian Metaphysics and Modern Logic respectively. In 2003 he was elected a Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens (Research Center for Greek Philosophy). He continues to work at the same Center (as a Visiting Researcher since 2007, and as a Principal Researcher since 2011). He has taught Logic at the University of Athens, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus. He is a member of the Hellenic Philosophical Society and the European Society for Ancient Philosophy. He specializes in Ancient Greek Ontology and Modern Philosophical Logic.
Katerina Ierodiakonou
Katerina Ierodiakonou is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has published extensively on ancient and Byzantine philosophy, especially in the areas of epistemology and logic. She currently works on a monograph about ancient theories of colour (CUP), as well as on an edition, translation and commentary of Theophrastus’ De sensibus (Brill) and of Michael Psellos’ paraphrase of Aristotle’s De interpretatione (De Gruyter). She is responsible for two research programmes: A Sourcebook of Byzantine Philosophy (2020-2023 ELIDEK), and Theories of Cognition in the Aristotelian Commentators (2018-2022 Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique).
Konstantinos Tsinas
Konstantinos Tsinas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Law of the University of Cyprus. He is a distinguished legal scholar, holding a degree in Law from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and postgraduate degrees in Criminal Law and Philosophy of Science. He earned his Ph.D. with distinction from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with a thesis on criminal law methodology. Tsinas has been awarded the "Ippokhratos Karabias" Prize by the Academy of Athens for his postdoctoral work on contemporary legal logic. He has taught various law courses at institutions including the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Hellenic Open University, and the Cyprus European University. Additionally, he has contributed to the development of postgraduate programs in law and has worked as a practicing lawyer in criminal law, being a member of the Hellenic Criminal Lawyers Association and the Hellenic Society of Criminal Law.
Antonis Kakas
Antonis C. Kakas is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. He obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London in 1984. His interest in Computing and AI started in 1989 within the group of Professor Kowalski. Since then his research has concentrated on computational logic in AI with particular interest in argumentation, abduction and induction and their application to machine learning and cognitive systems. Currently, he is working on the development of a new framework of Cognitive Programming that aims to offer an environment for developing Human-centric AI systems that can be naturally used by developers and human users at large. He was the National Contact Point for Cyprus in the flagship EU project on AI, AI4EU. He has recently co founded a start-up company in Paris, called Argument Theory, which offers solutions to real-life application decision taking problems based on argumentation technology.