Nikolaos Koios, Associate Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Professor Nikolaos Koios was born in Larisa in 1971. He completed his university studies in the Department of Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. At postgraduate level he studied Bioethics with scholarships abroad and in Greece at the University of Munich and at the Hastings Center for Bioethics in New York. He served as a theologian teacher for a decade in secondary education. He was a research associate of the Department of Orthodox Theology at the University of Munich. From 2010 to 2023 he served as assistant professor and associate professor at the Higher Ecclesiastical Academies of Thessaloniki and Athens. He is a member of the Pastoral Training Institute of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece. From 2011 to the present, he has been content coordinator of the online magazine “Pemptousia” (www.pemptousia.gr). Διετέλεσε μέλος ΣΕΠ του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου (ΕΑΠ) στο ΠΜΣ «Σπουδή στην Ορθόδοξη Θεολογία» και διδάσκει στο ΠΜΣ.

He has participated in Greek, international, and world conferences as an invited speaker. His articles have been published in scholarly journals in Greece and abroad. His published works include: Ethical Consideration of Technical Interventions in the Human Genome (Athens, 2003); Called to Freedom: Autonomy and Heteronomy in Ethics (Athens, 2006); Experience and Theology according to Elder Sophrony Sakharov (Mount Athos, 2012, 3rd ed.); Bioethics: Synodal Texts of Orthodox Churches (Athens, 2007); and Chapters of Applied Ethics (Thessaloniki, 2022).

In June 2023 he was elected associate professor of the Department of Theology of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in November, after taking the oath, he assumed his duties.