Dr. Alkis Gounaris is a postdoctoral researcher and a senior member of the PPE Lab of the University of Athens and a Research Fellow at the NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory. He has been teaching as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens since 2012. His areas of expertise include Philosophy of Human Cognition and Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Applied Ethics. He holds two Bachelor’s Degrees, one in Sport Sciences, and one in Philosophy; he also holds a Master’s Degree in Ethics, and a PhD in the Philosophy of Mind, all four by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

From 2020 to 2023, Dr. Gounaris played a key role as a researcher and coordinator of the European research project "Sophia at School", which focused on the introduction of the philosophy in primary education. He currently contributes to the Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, the National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics and is an associate faculty member at the Open University of Cyprus. He has published over fifty papers in both Greek and international journals and conferences. In addition, he has been a pioneer in the organization of more than 150 public events aimed at promoting philosophy to the general public.

Alongside his academic career, he trained and specialised in the fields of publishing, marketing, business and communication, areas in which he worked for several years. Since 1988 he has worked for Greek and multinational companies in the media and advertising sector (as a copywriter, editor and client service director), and in 1999 he was the coordinator of the team that planned the campaign for the image of contemporary Greece. He then worked as a business consultant in London and Antwerp from late 1999 to 2005. Today, in addition to his academic duties, he is involved in his family's business in the entertainment and food industry.

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