Vagelis Mallios was born in Athens in 1974. He is married to Pelagia and has two children, Danai and Klio.
He studied law at the University of Athens (1992–1997). He pursued postgraduate studies at Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) in Criminal Law (1998) and Public Law (1999). His doctoral thesis at the University of Athens Law School is entitled ‘The Human Genome: Genetic Research and the Protection of Human Rights’ (2002). He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court.
He specializes in public law, human rights, education and research law, as well as technology transfer and intellectual property protection.
He practices as a litigator and legal consultant and has served on legislative drafting committees of the Ministries of Education, Health and Justice. He has successfully handled cases before the European Court of Human Rights, including cases concerning civil partnerships for same-sex couples.
He is a legal advisor to the Agricultural University of Athens and the Hellenic Pasteur Institute.
He is the Data Protection Officer (DPO) of the Agricultural University of Athens.
From 2015 to 2019, he served as Legal Counsel to the Alternate Minister of Research.
He has taught Health Law as a scientific associate at the University of Athens Law School and in a postgraduate programme at the University of Crete. He has also taught Public Law at the University of Central Greece and Human Rights Law at the Department of Political Science of the University of Athens Law School.
From 2011 to 2017, he was a member of the Board of the Hellenic League for Human Rights.
He has published two books: ‘The Human Genome: Genetic Research and the Protection of Human Rights’ (University of Athens, 2002) and ‘Genetic Testing and Law’ (2004).
He has contributed to collective volumes, including ‘Medical Ethics: An Article-by-Article Analysis of Law 3418/2005’ (2013), ‘God Does Not Need a Prosecutor’ (2013), and ‘The Execution of ECHR Judgments by Greece’ (Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2021).
He has published numerous articles in academic journals and the press, and in recent years has been a regular contributor to syntagmawatch.gr.