Background

Education
  • Habilitation (docent) in Informatics (Mar 2015 - Mar 2016)
    Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, Department of Computer Graphics and Design, Brno, Czech Republic. Thesis Title: Interactive Virtual and Augmented Reality Environments.
  • Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (Oct 1999 - Oct 2004)
    Centre for VLSI and Computer Graphics, University of Sussex, School of Science and Technology, Department of Informatics, Falmer, UK. Thesis Title: Augmented Reality Interfaces - Architectures for Visualising and Interacting with Virtual Information.
  • MSc (Hons) in Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments (Oct 1998 - Oct 1999)
    University of Hull, Department of Computer Science, Hull, UK. Thesis Title: Surgical Planning For Knee Surgery.
  • BSc (Hons) in Computer System Engineering (Oct 1995 - May 1998)
    University of Sussex, School of Engineering, Falmer, UK. Thesis Title: Fractal Terrain Generation.
  • Foundation Year (Sep 1994 - Jun 1995)
    New College Athens, Athens, Greece.
  • Greek 'Apolytirion' (Sep 1991 - Jun 1994)
    49th Lyceum of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Research Experience
  • Senior Researcher B - Associate Professor level (April 2020 - now)
    Cyprus University of Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Limassol, Cyprus.
  • Associate Professor (Sep 2014 - March 2020)
    Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, Department of Computer Graphics and Design at the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory, Czech Republic.
  • Senior Lecturer (April 2007 - Aug 2014)
    Coventry University, Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Department of Computing, Coventry, UK.
  • Visiting Lecturer (July 2007 - July 2010)
    Visiting lecturer at the 'Centre of VLSI and Computer Graphics', Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.
  • Visiting Research Fellow (June 2007 - June 2008)
    Visiting research fellow at the 'giCentre', City University, Department of Information Science, London, UK.
  • Visiting Research Fellow (July 2006 - July 2007)
    Visiting research fellow at the 'Centre of VLSI and Computer Graphics', Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.
  • Research Fellow (Sep 2004 - April 2007)
    Employed by the department of Information Science in an EPSRC PinPoint Faraday project called Development of Location-context Tools for UMTS Mobile Information Services (LOCUS), City University, Department of Information Science, London, UK.
  • Research Officer (Jan 2003 - Sep 2004)
    Employed by the EU IST Framework V programme, Key Action III-Multimedia Content and Tools, Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects (ARCO) project IST-2000-28366, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.
  • Research Student (Oct 1999 - Sep 2004)
    PhD thesis 'Augmented Reality Interfaces - Architectures for Visualising and Interacting with Virtual Information', University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.

Lecturing Experience
  • Associate Professor (Sep 2014 - March 2020)
    Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, Department of Computer Graphics and Design, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • MSc co-director (Sep 2012 - Sep 2013)
    MSc in ‘Serious Games and Digital Content’, Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, Coventry, UK. 
  • Senior Lecturer (Oct 2007 - Aug 2014)
    Coventry University, Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Department of Computing, Coventry, UK.
  • Visiting Lecturer (Oct 2004 - Sep 2007)
    City University, Department of Information Science, London, UK.
  • Visiting Lecturer (Jan 2002 - Sep 2004)
    University of Sussex, School of Science and Technology, Department of Informatics, Falmer, UK.
  • Lecturing Assistant (Oct 1999 - May 2003)
    University of Sussex, School of Engineering, Falmer, UK.