Serkan Karas was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. He is a graduate of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at the University of Bogazici (Istanbul, Turkey), with specialization in control engineering. He has studied at the University of Maastricht (Netherlands), at the Inter-University Master Programme of European Studies in Science, Society and Technology (ESST). During the second semester of the ESST programme he visited the Graduate Program in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Athens / National Technical University of Athens, through an Erasmus exchange fellowship, to write his master (entitled ‘Representations of labour in computing technology advertisements: A study of the Greek computing journal Computer Για Όλους’). He is now working on his PhD at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The title of his research is “Political history of infrastructures in Cyprus of 20th century: Case studies from railway, electrification and sea-ports”. He speaks Turkish, Greek and English. He was the recipient of a State bursary from Cyprus Republic (2007-2011) and of Centenary Bursary from British School in Athens (2010).
Selected Publications:
Tympas, A., Konsta, H., Lekkas, T. and Karas, S. (2010) Constructing Gender and Technology in Advertising Images. In T.J. Misa (ed.) Gender Codes: Why women are leaving computing (pp.187-209). Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Selected Presentations in Conference:
Commentator at Athens: The Emergence and Governance of Critical Transnational European Infrastructures (EUROCRIT) Workshop 2009.
Granted for presentation at Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
(ITiCSE) 2010, the 15th annual conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education in Ankara, Turkey at Bilkent University.
Worked as researcher for ‘Making Europe Book Series Vol II: From Nature to Networks: Europe’s infrastructure transition and its consequences’ by Per Högselius, Arne Kaijser and Erik van der Vleuten’, (Ed J. Schot) Palgrave, Macmillan (not-published yet).
Membership to Professional/Scientific Societies/Associations:
History of Science Society (HSS)
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
Tensions of Europe (ToE)
Chamber of Electrical and Electronics Engineers of Cyprus
Association of Cypriot Scientists
