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Iraklis Vogiatzis is a postdoctoral researcher at Hellenic Open University and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Sociology Department at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He holds a PhD in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Labor from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the NKUA. He has a B.Sc. in Digital Systems from the School of Information and Communication Technologies at the University of Piraeus, Greece. After his undergraduate studies, he completed his M.Sc. in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the NKUA, Greece. His doctoral dissertation pertained to the newly emerged academic field of Digital Labor. His research topics include platform labor, particularly microwork platforms, as well as the ways this labor is organized and algorithmically managed through digital technologies, especially labor that creates and sustains Artificial Intelligence. 

He received a doctoral Scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation, which is co-financed by Greece and the European Union (ESF) through the operational program “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning”. He was a Research Associate of the Science Communication Laboratory at Hellenic Open University, working on the research project: “Algorithms in the Public Sphere: Technoscience discourse and science communication”. He participated in the research project “Science Communication and the Dissemination of Knowledge in Cold War Greece”, which is co-organized by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität and the Hellenic Open University.

He is a former fellow of the Weizenbaum-Institut, working in the ‘Data Algorithmic Systems and Ethics’ group, under the supervision of Dr. Milagros Miceli. He is a member of the interdisciplinary group DiPLab at Paris Telecom and serves on the Scientific Committee of the International Network on Digital Labor.