Irene Anastasiadou is a doctoral student at the department of technology management of the technical University of Eindhoven (subdepartment of History, Philosophy and Technology studies, section History of Technology). She holds a B.Sc in Philosophy and History of Science from the University of Athens (1999) and a M.A. in Philosophy and History of Science and Technology from the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens (2001). Her M.A. thesis was entitled “The Construction of the Railroad Network in Greece and the Emergence of the Greek Engineering Community” (supervisor Kostas Gavroglou). Her dissertation research (since 1st September 2003) is on the history of the co-evolution of the European railroad network and modern-Europe. Her project, which is supervised by professor Johan Schot and associate professor Gijs Mom, is a part of a broader project on "Transnational Infrastructures and the Rise of Contemporary Europe" (awarded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)to prof dr. J.W. Schot under the VICI scheme).

She is a member of the following associations: Society for the History of Technology (SHOT, 2001-present), International Community for the history of technology (ICOHTEC, 2001-present), Greek Society for the History of Science and Technology (2002-present).

Irene is SHOT International Scholar for 2005-2007.

She speaks fluently Greek, English, has an advanced level of Italian and Dutch.

Irene Anastasiadou
IPO 2.02
PO BOx 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
+31(0)40-247 3461
i.anastasiadou@tm.tue.nl

Publications

Papers:

• 'In search of the railway Europe. International railway organizations in 19th and 20th century Europe.' T²M Conference, York (UK), 6-9 October 2005.

Publications/Presentations:

• 'Networks of powers: railway visions in inter-war Europe', in: in: The Journal of Transport History, 28, 2 (2007), pp.6-25.

• (with Erik van Vleuten, Vincent Lagendijk & Frank Schipper), 'Europe's System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity and Rail Networks', in:Contemporary European History 16, 3 (2007), pp.321-347.

• (with Aristotle Tympas), 'Constructing Balkan Europe. The modern Greek pursuit of an "Iron Egnatia" ', in: Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser, eds. Networking Europe. Transnational infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, 1850-2000 (Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2006).

• Conference presentation, (with Aristotle Tympas), “On Studying the History of Greek Technological Networks,” ICOHTEC Conference, Granada, Spain, 2002.

• Workshop Presentation: (with Aristotle Tympas) “Beyond Momentum: Network Fluidity in the History of Greek Railroads,» Networking Europe Theme, Tensions of Europe Project, Amsterdam, 2002

• Workshop Presentation: (with Aristotle Tympas): “Tensions Between, Tensions Within: The European and the Balkan in the Formation of Greek Communication Networks”.

• Conference Presentation: "The emergence of a European Railroad Network: How International linkage Shaped the Greek Railroad Network" First International Conference on the History of Traffic Transport and Mobility, Eindhoven, November 2003.