Aglaia Chatzouli (Chatjouli) is Assistant Professor (Tenure) at the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean. Her academic field of specialty is Anthropology of Health. She has a cross-disciplinary background having studied molecular cell biology at King’s College London (B.Sc. 1996), human biology at the University of Oxford (M.Sc. 1997), while holding a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of the Aegean (2009). Her primary research and theoretical interests involve around a biosocial analytic, the relationship between biology and anthropology, nature and culture, the constructions of the biological and the social, the normative power of (bio)difference, the politics of health, the complex relationship between the environment and wellbeing. Her research falls in the realms of anthropology of health and care, anthropology of the body, anthropology of ageing, anthropology of technology, anthropology of the environment, and Greek ethnography. She has undertaken extensive research in reproduction, parenthood, ageing, genetic disease, and patienthood, looking also into vulnerability, stigmatization and gender specificities. During the period 2021-2023, she was Principal Investigator for the research project The biosocial experience of aging during the Covid-19 pandemic. BIO-AGE, funded by the Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation. During the period 2013-2015 she held a postdoc position at the university of the Aegean, carrying out ethnographic research on infertility and new reproductive technologies in Greece alongside the project (In)FERCIT, (In)Fertile Citizens: On the Concepts, Practices, Politics and Technologies of Assisted Reproduction in Greece, co-funded by the European Union and Greek national funds. During the periods 1997-1998 and 1998-2002, she held research positions at the Hellenic Research Foundation and participated in the European research projects: Biotechnology and the European Public and European Debates in Biotechnology & Life Sciences in European Society. During an internship at the Department of Reproductive Health and Research of the WHO in Geneva, in 2010, she carried out desk research on the topic of Infertility and Stigma in Indigenous Populations. During 2011-2012, she participated in the Project Cross-cultural mediation in selected hospitals in Athens and Thessalonica, funded by the European Fund for the Inclusion of Third-country Nationals. Currently, she is Visiting Scholar at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University for the 2026 Summer term. She has published her work in both Greek and English, and has presented her work at numerous national and international conferences. Selected publications: Chatjouli, A., Tigkas P., 2024, Ageing, Technology and care during the Covid-19 pandemic in Greece”; THEANTHRO.ART - https://theanthro.art/ageing-in-the-anthropocene/ Chatjouli, A., 2023 (edit.).
As a 2026-2027 Fulbright Scholar, Aglaia Chatzouli will be hosted at the Program in Hellenic Studies at Columbia University. Her project is titled: Aging as a Biosocial Process. Aging in Greece and beyond. Vulnerabilities and Care. Bringing elderly life stories to the forefront of cross-disciplinary discussions on aging. Bridging disciplines, enhancing dialogue, forming connections.