Ethics Advisors

Takis Vidalis completed his basic legal studies at the University of Athens. In 1995, he received his Ph.D. in law. In 2001 he was elected a senior researcher and legal advisor of the Hellenic National Bioethics Commission (now, Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics) . He is the author (or co-author) of 7 books and more than 50 academic papers in topics related to ethics and law of advanced tehnologies. Currently, he teaches "Biolaw and Bioethics" at the International Hellenic University, the Democritus University of Thrace, and the Open University of Cyprus, and "Artificial Intelligence: Ethics and Law", at the Law School of the Univ. of Athens. He is the president of the Research Ethics Committee of the National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos" (the largest multidisciplinary research centre of Greece), and a member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (European Commission).

Vasiliki Mollaki earned her BSc in Genetics from Cardiff University and an MSc in Molecular and Genetic Medicine from Sheffield University, where she also completed her doctorate in Genetics in 2006. Mollaki served as an adjunct Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Technological Institute of Athens and currently teaches Biolaw and Bioethics at the International Hellenic University and the Open University of Cyprus. Since 2011, she has been a Scientific Associate at the National Commission for Bioethics and Technoethics and has been an external Ethics Expert for the European Commission, participating in over 60 Ethics Panels and chairing 14. Mollaki is also a member of several ethics committees and has an impressive publication record, including 3 monographs, 1 e-book, 15 articles in international scientific journals, 4 articles in national scientific journals and contributed 3 chapters in 3 collective books. She currently serves on the editorial board of the journal Bioethica.