Kostas Gavroglou served as Professor of History of Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens, from 1994 to 2014.

His research fields are the histories of physical and quantum chemistry, the history of artificial cold, and issues related with the appropriation of scientific ideas and practices by the European periphery from the 18th century.

Publications include Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Springer, 2015, co-edited with Ana Simoes & Maria Paula Diogo), and Neither Physics nor Chemistry: A History of Quantum Chemistry (MIT Press, 2011, with Ana Simões).