Prof. Erik Champion

Enterprise Fellow, Director, Playful Cultures Lab, Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE), University of South Australia

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Erik is an Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia (Creative-Architecture), Honorary Professor at ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research (CDHR), Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia and Emeritus Professor at Curtin University. In 2023 he was invited to be an adjunct professor at Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta, he is a Senior Associate at Outside Opinion, and in 2021 he was a visiting scholar in Finland. He was previously UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation, and Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He was also CIC Visualisation Theme Leader and Steering Committee member at the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC). He was recently a chief investigator on four Australian Research Council grants (involving research infrastructures and cultural heritage) and an Australian Research Data Commons Platform Grant. He trained as an architect / architectural historian, received a second master’s (with honours) in philosophy, a Graduate Certificate (with VC Commendation) in Digital Learning Futures, and his ARC Scholarship PhD was from two Faculties (Geomatics-Engineering and Architecture-Melbourne School of Design) with Lonely Planet as the industry partner. He has been teaching multimedia since 1990. He specializes in virtual heritage and serious games. Web site: https://erikchampion.wordpress.com/about/

Prof. Panos Constantopoulos

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Informatics, UNESCO Chair on Digital Methods for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Panos Constantopoulos is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Informatics and holds the UNESCO Chair on Digital Methods for the Humanities and Social Sciences. He has served as Dean of the School of Information Sciences and Technology, Chairman of the Department of Informatics, Director of the MSc Programme in Digital Methods for the Humanities, and Director of the Information Systems and Databases Laboratory. He is affiliated with the Information Management Systems Institute of the “Athena” Research Centre, where he heads the Digital Curation Unit. He was previously Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete (1986-2003). From 1992 to 2003 he was head of the Information Systems Laboratory and the Centre for Cultural Informatics at the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas. Visiting professor at the Université de Paris – Sud, the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, and the University of Toronto, a visiting director of research (CNRS) at the Université de Paris – Sud, and a visiting scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and the Operations Research Center, MIT. His scientific interests include knowledge representation and conceptual modeling, ontology engineering, semantic information access, process mining, knowledge management systems, decision support systems, cultural informatics, digital libraries, digital curation, and preservation. He holds a Diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1978), a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University (1979), and a Doctor of Science in Operations Research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983). He has been the principal investigator or scientific responsible on part of his affiliation in 40 national or international research and development projects. He is the coordinator of “APOLLONIS”, the Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities, and Language Research and Innovation. Web site: https://www.aueb.gr/en/faculty_page/constantopoulos-panos

Jill Cousins

Assistant Professor at Polytech’Nantes, University of Nantes / LS2N Research lab

Prof. Laurent d’Orazio

Professor at Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA

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Laurent d’Orazio has been a Professor at Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA since 2016. He received his PhD degree in computer science from Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute in 2007. He was an Associate Professor at Blaise Pascal University and LIMOS CNRS, Clermont-Ferrand from 2008 to 2016. His research interests include (big) data algorithms and architectures, distributed and parallel databases. He has published papers in Information Systems, Sigmod Record, EDBT and CCGrid. He served in Program Committees in SSDBM, ICCCN, BPM DaWaK and workshops affiliated to VLDB, EDBT, Big Data etc., and Reviewing Committees in Information Sciences, Distributed and Parallel Databases, Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. He is or has been involved (sometimes as a coordinator) in research projects such as the PHC Jules Vernes IDENTITY project (2024-2025), the NSF MOCCAD project (2013-2019), the ANR SYSEO project (2010-2015) and the STIC ASIA GOD project (2013-2015). Web site: https://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/laurent.dorazio/