Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Greek historian of medicine
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (born August 1983) is a Greek historian of medicine who specialises in the Byzantine period. He is the author of Innovation in Byzantine Medicine.
Biography
Bouras-Vallianatos was born in Cephalonia, Greece. He studied pharmacy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens from 2001 to 2007, followed by a bachelor's degree in ancient history at King's College London. He then studied late antique and Byzantine history and literature at the University of Oxford from 2010 to 2011, before earning a doctorate in history of medicine at King’s College London under the supervision of Dionysios Stathakopoulos and Ludmilla Jordanova in 2015.
From 2015 to 2019, Bouras-Vallianatos held a Wellcome Research Fellowship at King's College London, and in 2019 he received the permanent appointment to a Wellcome Lectureship in the history of medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 2021, he was awarded the Prize for Young Historians by the International Academy of the History of Science for his book Innovation in Byzantine medicine. His article on "Cross-Cultural Transfer of Medical Knowledge in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Introduction and Dissemination of Sugar-Based Potions from the Islamic World to Byzantium" in Speculum was recognised as the article of the month by the Mediterranean Seminar in November 2021, and awarded the 2022 Estes Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine.
In September 2022, Bouras-Vallianatos became associate professor of history of science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds the honorary fellowship in history at the University of Edinburgh, and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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