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MANOLIS PATINIOTIS is a professor of History of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He studied Physics and continued with postgraduate studies in History and Philosophy of Science. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT and a visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. From 2002 to 2021, he was a professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of NKUA, where he taught History of Modern Science, Historiography of Science and Technology and Digital Humanities. His research focused on the rise of modern science in the European periphery and in colonial settings. He especially studied intellectual undertakings that were not part of the Enlightenment and tried to bridge the history of European science with postcolonial studies. In recent years his research has focused on the study of the History and Philosophy of the Digital. From a historical perspective, he examines the development of digital ontology through the intersection of Information Theory with the rise of Discrete State Machines. From a philosophical perspective, he explores the concepts of virtuality and modularity, and the new forms of social performativity that these make possible. He was a member of the editorial board of the Science Communication journal Prisma and of the academic committee that coordinated the creation of the MSc program “Science Communication” at the Hellenic Open University. He was also a founding member of the international network for the history of Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP).