Chrysostomos Mantzavinos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Athens. He is a member of the Academia Europaea – The Academy of Europe, the European Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the International Academy for the Philosophy of the Sciences.

Before his current appointment in Athens, he held the Chair of Economics and Philosophy at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany (2004-2011). He has also taught at Freiburg, Bayreuth, and Stanford and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn. He served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard (twice), at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (twice) and has been a Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. He was a Fellow at THE NEW INSTITUTE, Hamburg, served as a Mercator Fellow at the DFG Research Training Group “Ethics and Epistemology of Science” at Bielefeld University/Leibniz University Hannover (2020-2024) and taught also at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. He holds two Ph.D degrees, in Economics and in Philosophy, both from the University of Tübingen.