Aglaia (Aigli) Chatjouli teaches at the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean. She studied molecular cell biology at King’s College London (B.Sc. 1996), human biology at the University of Oxford (M.Sc. 1997), and holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of the Aegean (2009). She is interested in the relationship between biology and anthropology, the normative power of (bio)difference, the shifts and (dis)continuities related to the understanding of nature, the politics of health, the complex relationship between the environment and wellbeing. Her research interests focus on anthropology of health and care, anthropology of the body, anthropology of the environment, anthropology of ageing and Greek ethnography. She has carried out research on the construction of wellbeing in different contexts and on the multiple conceptualizations and shifts that are documented in the fields of reproduction, challenged bodies, care, parenting, ageing.
During the period 2021-2023, she was Principal Investigator for the research project “The biosocial experience of aging during the Covid-19 pandemic. BIO-AGE” funded by the Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation. During the period 2013-2015 she held a postdoc position at the university of the Aegean carrying out ethnographic research on infertility and new reproductive technologies in Greece alongside the project (In)FERCIT, “(In)Fertile Citizens: On the Concepts, Practices, Politics and Technologies of Assisted Reproduction in Greece”, co-funded by the European Union and Greek national funds.) http://www.in-fercit.gr/en). She has worked for the Hellenic Open University in order to construct a “Culturally sensitive Mental Health Guide for Refugees” in the context of the Project “PRESS: Provision of Refugee Education and Support” (2017). During the periods 1997-1998 and 1998-2002 she held research positions at the Hellenic Research Foundation and participated in the European research projects: “Biotechnology and the European Public” and “European Debates in Biotechnology & Life Sciences in European Society”. During an internship at the “Department of Reproductive Health and Research” of the WHO in Geneva, in 2010, she carried out desk research on the topic of “Infertility and Stigma in Indigenous Populations”. During the period 2011-2012 she participated in the Project “Cross-cultural mediation in selected hospitals in Athens and Thessalonica” funded by the European Fund for the Inclusion of Third-country Nationals”.