Markos Konstantakis serves as an Adjunct Lecturer and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, where he is a member of the Intelligent Interaction research group (ii.aegean.gr) and the I-Lab Intelligent Systems laboratory, active in the research fields of Intelligent Systems, Human Computer Interaction, and Digital Management of Cultural Heritage. He received a Ph.D. in the same department, entitled: “Augmented Cultural User Experience (ACUX)” and a master’s degree in “Specialization in Information Systems, Networks, and Telecommunications” from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the Hellenic Open University (HOU). Markos completed a degree and a master’s degree as a Marine Mechanical Engineer at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

In the past, he served as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Computer, Informatics, and Telecommunications Engineering (International Hellenic University), at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication (University of the Aegean), at the Department of Digital Media and Communication (Ionian University) and as an instructor at the e-learning program of Panteion University and University of Athens. His teaching experience includes courses offered at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels on the topics of Human Computer Interaction, Digital Culture, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Persuasive Computing and Audiovisual Media Production.

He has served as a reviewer, board member, and committee member in numerous international scientific journals, conferences, and workshops, and has been invited numerous times to give talks regarding his research interests and activity. His research on various aspects of intelligent human computer interaction and cultural informatics has been published in more than 25 journal articles and more than 20 papers in conferences and workshops and has been well recognized by the scientific community by being cited more than 380 times with a h-index of 12. He has participated in more than 10 research projects during the past 15 years at the Regional, National and European level as a Researcher and Academic Fellow.