He received his Diploma (B.Eng, M.Eng) in Rural and Surveying Engineering of the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in 2011. In 2018, he received his PhD degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) of the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh) in the research domain of 3D mesh processing and information retrieval. Since 2013, he has joined the Institute for language and Speech processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center (ARC) as a member of the Multimedia Research Group. As of 2020, Dr. Ioannakis is an assistant researcher at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing of ARC.  His research interests include processing, content-based retrieval and classification of three-dimensional (3D) polygonal meshes, photogrammetry, digital image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and the construction and programming of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Systems). 

In 1993 he obtained the M.Sc. with distinction in Communications and Signal Processing from Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, University of London, UK. In 1997 he received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematical modelling and Stochastic Control from Imperial College.  Since 1998 he has been working at the ILSP, as head of the Quality Assurance Office (1999-2003), in 2004-2007 he has elected Researcher at ILSP, in 2008-2015 he has promoted to Senior Researcher and in 2015-today he has promoted to Researcher Director.  He has been elected as President of the Scientific Council of ILSP for the period 2009-2018, as member of the Board of Athena RC since 2016-2019 as an elected representative of the Researchers and Vice-President since 2019. He was among the founding members of LibrisTech, the first spin-off company of ILSP, where he acted as managing director until September 2004 and until 2010 he was President of the Board. He is also Member of the Board at the Information Society S.A since June 2019. His research interest involves digital signal processing, statistics analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence with applications in a wide variety of signals and data (voice, music, image, video, sensorial data, etc.) He has authored a significant number of scientific publications in the above fields in books, scientific journals as well as international conferences. He has supervised doctor thesis and postgraduate thesis as well as teaches in postgraduate programs in his research subjects. He has also participated in the organization international conferences such as ΙCFHR 2014, he has participated in international competitions in handwriting processing technologies (ICDAR & ICFHR Contests), music technology (MIREX) and sensor data analysis (PHM Data Challenge) with among the best submissions and his is also reviewer in scientific journals and international conferences. He has coordinated the quality control of various commercial products and software systems, he has been involved in research and development programs at national and European level, having the role of the coordinator, the scientific manager or a member of scientific teams.  He is member at the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) since 1992, of the Technical Chamber of Greece since 1992. Since 1999 he is a certified market maker/trader of the Derivatives Market at the Athens Exchange and of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) since 2005. 

She was a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen (project FIBRANET, 2017-2019). She is the Head of the Applied Research Department at the Directorate of Conservation/Hellenic Ministry of Culture and a collaborator of the Athena Research Center through the project TEXTaiLES. In the COST Action CA19131 EuroWeb, Europe through Textiles (2020-2024), she was the Leader of WG1 Textile Technologies and she is responsible for the instrumental analysis of Mycenaean textiles at the ELIDEK program FAROS, The Fabric of Kings (2023-2025, PI S Spantidaki). She has taught textile conservation at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens (now University of West Attica), the UCL Qatar, and the University of Copenhagen. 

During his master thesis he studied selfish routing games while his academic interests are pattern emergence and evolutionary game theory. During his studies he also started working as a Backend Web Developer for which he has over 10 years of experience in the field.  Lately, he’s been working at the Athena Research Center as a Researcher Associate where he tackles problems around Computational Geometry, software analysis and ML algorithm optimisation.  

His research interests focus on robotics, 3D modeling and design, and computer graphics. His thesis involves the design of an autonomous platform for 3D object digitization and the implementation of autonomous 3D reconstruction algorithms on real robotic platforms. He is currently a research intern at the Athena Research Center , where he specializes in robotics applications and 3D object reconstruction.

Since 1994, she has participated in the Karabournaki excavation (Thermaic Gulf) and has co-directed it since 2014. She has led and contributed to interdisciplinary projects involving digital documentation, metadata design, and the development of FAIR-aligned research infrastructures. Her expertise includes managing archaeological datasets, comparative collections, and the digital transformation of heritage research. Dr. Tsiafaki also addresses the ethical and epistemological dimensions of digital heritage and AI in archaeology. She actively fosters collaboration between humanities and technical domains and contributes to national and European initiatives promoting innovation, accessibility, and responsible use of archaeological data. 

Her research interests include 3D reconstruction and scene understanding, with a focus on computer vision and machine learning methods for 3D data. She is also a research associate at Athena Research Center, where she works on robot-acquired 3D data, focusing on the automatic identification of problematic regions in reconstructed scenes and the development of more automated, robust, and semantically enriched 3D reconstruction workflows.

She has professional experience as an engineer, with a focus on field engineering and automation systems. She is currently a Research Associate at the Athena Research Center, where she works on cultural heritage and environmental projects, contributing to the development and management of datalake infrastructures.

In 2020, she received her PhD in co-tutorship at the Heidelberg and Sapienza Universities with a thesis focused on the fabric remains from the Vesuvian area and the textile imprints on the human plaster casts from Pompeii. Dr. Coletti is a Research Fellow at the Department of Science of Antiquity, dedicated to winners of the Seal of Excellence awarded in 2023 under the European MSCA Post-Doctoral Fellowship program, with research focused on diagnostics, enhancement and conservation of textile artefacts and the digitization of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic textiles. Since 2018, she has taught “Archaeology and Archaeometry of Textiles” in the Fashion Studies course at the SARAS Department. 

He is also Associated Research Fellow at ISPC-CNR, Editor in Chief for funding of Asia Minor. An International Journal of Archaeology in Turkey, visiting professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute, and Full Member of the Mommsen-Gesellschaft. His research spans Roman and Greek archaeology, architecture and sculpture, sacred and domestic spaces, ancient textile culture, Asia Minor, and the historiography of classical archaeology. He currently leads major projects including Textile Culture at Pompeii, Basilica Iulia at the Forum Romanum, Teos Dionysos Tempel, ADigTex, and ARIMINUM. In 2009 he received a presidential award for the exhibition project Machina. 

His research interests include, i) inducing autonomy in real-world multi-robot systems, ii) spanning coverage/exploration path planning for UAVs/UGVs/AUVs, iii) reinforcement learning and multi-agent RL, and iv) large-scale distributed/adaptive control. During the past years, he has contributed to a broad portfolio of competitively funded R&D projects spanning EU FP7, H2020 and Horizon Europe programmes, as well as Greek national initiatives—taking on responsibilities ranging from key technical roles to project leadership. Across his work in competitively funded R&D, he has served through three institutional affiliations: the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), and the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research and Innovation Center (ARC). 

In November 2018, he began his studies as a PhD candidate in the same department, in the Automatic Control Systems and Robotics Lab, under the supervision Pf. Elias Kosmatopoulos and was finalised by the end of 2024. 
Since 2017 she has been working as a Research Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Mobility and Transport Networks (HIT) of the Center of Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). At the same time, since 2019 he has been working as a Research Associate at the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the same Center, as a member of the ConvCAO team. His research interests focus on the field of Artificial Intelligence, Automated Driving, Data Driven Control, Knowledge Management and Decision Making Systems. 

He received the Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and the MSc degree in Radio Frequency Communication Systems from University of Southampton, in 2000 and 2001 respectively. He also holds a PhD degree on Interactive video retrieval using implicit user feedback, Queen Mary University of London (2013). He has participated in a number of EC-funded and National ICT projects (e.g. ELU, PATExpert, REACH, PESCaDO, CHORUS) and his research interests include multimedia analysis, indexing and retrieval, human computer interaction in multimedia retrieval, patent search, environmental and learning applications. His scientific work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, international conferences and book chapters. 

His experience as a research associate at the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas focuses on the research and development of computer vision and machine learning techniques, with emphasis on applying advanced AI methods to real-world problems. His work has contributed to national and European research projects (TEXTaiLES, ASHVIN, NESTOR, 7SHIELD, REA, beAWARE), carrying out R&D activities in areas such as visual perception, intelligent multimedia analysis, data-driven modelling, and applied machine learning. His broader research interests include computer vision, deep learning, multimedia technologies, and computational intelligence. 

Her research interests focus on Aegean archaeology, particularly Minoan Crete, as well as textile, experimental and gender archaeology. She has been awarded two grants from the National Science Centre of Poland, for the projects: “Textile production in Bronze Age Greece – comparative studies of the Aegean weaving techniques” (2015–2017) and “Textiles and Seals. Relations between textile production and seals and sealing practices in Bronze Age Greece” (2018–2022). She has served as Chair of the COST Action CA 19131 “EuroWeb. Europe Through Textiles: Network for an integrated and interdisciplinary Humanities” (2020–2024). Currently, she is the beneficiary and local coordinator of the project “TEXTile digitisAtIon tooLs and mEthodS for cultural heritage (TEXTaiLES)”, HORIZON REA action 101158328 (2024–2027) and the leader of the project “Exploring Textile Imprints on Clay from the 3^rd and the 2^nd Millennia BCE: Advancing Cutting-Edge Research and Documentation Protocols with Case Studies of Diverse Textile Consumption Contexts (ExplorTIC)”, NCN SONATA BIS, 2023/50/E/HS3/00094/ (2024–2027). 

She specializes in the archaeology of prehistoric Sicily and the Aegean region, with a particular focus on Italo-Aegean contacts and funerary architecture, especially in relation to landscape. Her research interests also include textile archaeology, specifically the functionality of textile tools, as well as Aegean seals and sealing practices. She was awarded the PRELUDIUM 11 grant from the National Science Centre of Poland for her research project “Sicilian Textile Tools from the Bronze Age: Examination of Finds and Comparative Studies on Their Functionality” (2017-2019). 

Her research area is Modeling and Asymptotic analysis for PDEs in periodic and thin structures. Her especially impact are new asymptotic dimension reduction and homogenization algorithms for elastic heterogeneous fiber structures and shells, like textiles. She submitted, performed and supervised DFG, AIF, BMBF European, industrial projects and supervised 10 PhD students. Under her supervision software TexMath was developed. She has many publications in Q1 journals in applied mathematics and mechanics. She is a managing editor in „Proceedings of Royal Society A”, Q1-journal in Mathematics, Mechanics and Engineering.

In addition to textiles, he has worked on the simulation of electrochemical processes in batteries and semiconductor components, as well as of high-cycle fatigue in fiber-reinforced composites. In the TEXTaiLES project, his focus is on the development of numerical tools for dynamic textile draping, folding and contact problems.