Dimitris Petakos was born in 1981 and he has a PhD in History of Science from the “History and Philosophy of Science” Department of the University of Athens. He studied History and Philosophy of Science (BA and MA) at the University of Athens. He also studied in the “Communication, Media, and Culture” Department of Panteion University (BA). He is the scriptwriter and narrator of three History of Science documentaries: “Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler: Tree great Astronomers” (2011), the award-winning “Galileo: Fighting in the Dawn of Modern Science” (2013) and the award-winning “Newton: The Force of God” (2016). Since the September of 2016, he is one of the chief editors of the journal “PRISMA”, which is published with the newspaper “Avgi”. He is also a researcher in the European project “SciFun: Making Learning Science Fun”, concerning education and construction of Public Image of Science. At this year he begins a partnership with the “Herakleidon Museum”, where he will implement educational programs in History of Science. From the September of 2015 to the June of 2017 he implemented educational programs, concerning the History of Science and Science, at “Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation”. From the February of 2010 to the November of 2016, he was working at “Eugenides Foundation” where he was designing and implementing educational programs based on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Science Communication and Public Understanding of Science and Technology. In the past he was a columnist for “Science Illustrated” magazine and a Radio producer in the show “What’s Up Doc?”, aiming at informing the public about the latest developments in Science and Technology.
He has taught one lesson of History of Science in the MA of the “History and Philosophy of Science” Department (2016-2017) and one lesson in the BA of the same Department (2012-2013). During this semester (2017-2018), he will teach one more lesson in the MA. He is, also, an active researcher in History of Science and he has participated in ten conferences so far. He has published one paper in the “Contributions to the History of Concepts” magazine (2017), one paper in a collective volume (2013), and one bibliographical guide in the Greek translation of I.B. Cohen’s book “The Birth of a New Physics” by the Crete University Press (2017).