Tifas Andreas

Tifas Andreas, BSc, MA, Ph.D

Visiting Professor

Biography

Visiting Professor Andreas Chr. Tifas was born in Lymbia, Nicosia district in 1974. He graduated from the Nursing School of Cyprus 1995-1998. From 2003-2008 he studied at the Psychology department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and from 2009-2011 he studied at the Nursing Simulation program of TEPAK. He also holds a Master’s Degree in the Management of Health Units APKY 2009-2013. He is a Doctor of Applied Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of Pedagogy and Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2014-2018. In April 2023, he completed his post-doctoral research at the Sociology department of Panteion University of Athens on the subject: Man and Biopolitics. From September 2023 he is Visiting Professor of Ethics at Philips University.

Since 1999 he has been a Nursing Officer at the Larnaca General Hospital. He is a member of the editorial board of the Cypriot Nursing Chronicles magazine in Cyprus and of the Philosophy and Education magazine in Greece, as well as a peer reviewer in the Conatus magazine of the Applied Philosophy Laboratory of the Greek Academy of Sciences. His authorship includes three books: Man and Ethics: concepts and issues in the relationship between nursing and care, Athens, Papazisi Publications, 2020 and Biopolitics and Man: aspects of care and the Covid-19 pandemic, Athens: Papazisi Publications (in publication), and a poetry collection: Rhythm and Anti-rhythm, Athens Ydroplano Publications, 2021. He has also published 10 articles in Cypriot and Greek magazines.

Dr. Andreas Ch. Tifas since December 2018 – today he is a member of the Biomedical Evaluation Committee of the National Bioethics Committee of Cyprus, as well as in other scientific and professional associations in Cyprus and Greece.