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Kornilia Papanastasiou is a PhD Candidate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). Her doctoral research, entitled “Contextualizing the Integration of AI and Big Data in Reproductive Technologies”, aims at opening the “black box” of assisted reproductive technologies and uncovering embedded inequalities, stereotypes, and biases within their technological design. Her research was supported by a scholarship from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI). She also holds a Master’s degree from the Interdepartmental Program of Graduate Studies in "Science, Technology, Society—Science and Technology Studies" hosted by HPS and the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, NKUA.

Her research has been presented at 8 international and national conferences, and she has participated in 5 summer and winter schools. She was a Visiting Researcher at the Visiting Researchers in Nafplio Program, Centre for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University, under the theme "Bioethics" (2005).

In 2022, she co-authored with Dr Katerina Vlantoni the article “ ‘LIVE FROM THE WOMB: Historicising the Integration of AI into Biomedicine”, which was published in ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology.