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Irene  Anastasiadou i.anastasiadou@tm.tue.nl Eindhoven University of Technology Faculty of Technology Management P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven THE NETHERLANDS phone: +31 40 247 5409 fax: +31 40 244 4602

Biographical Sketch

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 "Trasnational 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). She speaks fluently Greek, English, has an advanced level of Italian and she is currently learning Dutch.