Marseille
Apostolos Delis
Permanent researcher at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS/FORTH). His research focuses on maritime economic and social history, the history of sailing and steamship technologies, the shipbuilding industry, port history, and institutions related to maritime business. In 2016, he coordinated the ERC Starting Grant project SeaLiT: Seafaring Lives in Transition, Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping, 1850s–1920s. He is the author of the monograph Mediterranean Wooden Shipbuilding: Economy, Technology and Institutions in Syros in the Nineteenth Century (2015) and co-editor of Mediterranean Seafarers in Transition: Maritime Labour, Communities, Shipping and the Challenge of Industrialization, 1850s–1920s (2022). He has also published extensively in academic journals and collective volumes in English, French, and Greek.
Pavlos Fafalios
Assistant Professor at the School of Production Engineering and Management at the Technical University of Crete (Chania, Greece), and affiliated researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH. He holds a diploma in Information and Communication Systems Engineering from the University of the Aegean, an MSc in Information Systems and E-commerce Technologies from the University of Crete, and a PhD in Information Systems from the same institution. He completed postdoctoral research at the L3S Research Center at Leibniz University Hannover (2016–2019) and at the Information Systems Laboratory of FORTH (2019–2023). He specialises in Information Systems and Knowledge Engineering, with a strong focus on interdisciplinary research and practical application. He has published over 50 papers in international journals, conference proceedings, and collective volumes. He has worked on numerous research projects funded by Greek and European institutions, and received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (Horizon 2020) for the project ReKnow (Project Code: 890861). He regularly serves on programme committees for international conferences and as a reviewer for specialist journals.
Alkiviadis Kapokakis
PhD candidate at the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete, and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies / FORTH. His dissertation focuses on maritime labour in Greece during the period 1850–1920, as part of the research project SeaLiT: Seafaring Lives in Transition. Maritime Labour and Shipping, with Dr Apostolos Delis as Principal Investigator. His research interests include the labour relations within the Greek-owned sailing and steam-powered fleet,) and labour market. Since 2022, he has been working on database compilation and documentation in the Onassis Business Archive project under the supervision of Professor Gelina Harlaftis.
Nikolaos Kontonasios
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete (2022), master’s student and graduate fellow at the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) at FORTH-ICS (Heraklion, Greece).
His research interests include information systems, information retrieval, and knowledge representation..
Kalliopi Vasilaki
Holds a Master’s degree in History from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris (2012), and a PhD in History from the University of Crete (2022). She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Maritime History Centre of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS/FORTH). Her thesis focused on the maritime community of La Ciotat (1850–1914). She participated in the ERC STG 2016 project SeaLiT: Seafaring Lives in Transition. Maritime Labour and Shipping, based at IMS/FORTH. Her current research examines 19th-century Mediterranean maritime societies and communities. She has published several articles in academic journals and collective volumes.
