Dimitrios Dacrotsis

Dimitrios Dacrotsis received his PhD in Philosophy from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he also conducted postdoctoral research from 2017 to 2019. Since March 2023, he has served as Academic Tutor for the Module "Philosophy and Music" in the M.A. Programme in Philosophy and the Arts at the Hellenic Open University. He also holds an M.A. in Ethics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a B.A. in Hellenic Civilization from the Hellenic Open University. Between 2021 and 2026, he held teaching appointments at the University of Thessaly, the University of Western Macedonia, the University of Ioannina, and the University of West Attica, teaching undergraduate courses in Research Methodology, Moral Development, Bioethics, Philosophical Logic, History of Philosophy, and Philosophy of Education. He has also delivered invited lectures at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and has taught in continuing education programmes. In 2026, he was awarded a research fellowship by the Friends of Music Society through the Kyveli–Giannis Horn Fellowships, following evaluation by an independent Scientific Committee. The fellowship supported the research project Archival Evidence on the Relationship between Music, Language and Drama in Modern Greek Musical Thought: Aesthetics, Ethics and Truth, based on archival material held at the Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”. His research focuses on Aesthetics, Philosophy of Music and Ethics, with particular emphasis on the philosophy of Benedetto Croce and the aesthetics of musical experience. He is the author of three scholarly monographs and has published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. He has presented papers at both national and international academic conferences. He was awarded the First Prize in Essay Writing by the Panhellenic Union of Writers (2015) and by the Union of Writers of Northern Greece (2016).