Irini Tountasaki is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. She has served as Director of the Postgraduate Programme "Social and Cultural Anthropology" (2016-2018) and as Chair of the Department (2020-2022). Her scientific interests focus on the following fields: anthropological theories of kinship, new forms of kinship and reproductive medicine, biopolitics, ideologies and technologies of parenthood and familiality, transnational/interracial adoption, Greek ethnography. Her study “Transnational/interracial adoption: 'Mild migration' and new geographies of kinship” (2022) is published by Pataki Publications.