Lab Director
Christina Anagnostopoulou
Christina Anagnostopoulou is an Associate Professor in music informatics and cognition at the Department of Music Studies, University of Athens. She studied Music (BMus Hons) and Artificial Intelligence <http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk> (MSc in knowledge-based systems) at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD, also in Edinburgh, was on computational and cognitive modelling of music analysis. She has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow on various topics in music analysis and AI, and from 2002 to 2006 she was a lecturer at the Department of Music and Sonic Arts, <http://www.music.qub.ac.uk>, Queen’s University Belfast. During that time she led the Music Informatics and Cognition research group, and got her postgraduate qualification in Higher Education Teaching.
George Kosteletos
Post-doc researcher
George Kosteletos holds a PhD in Philosophy of Mind and Artificial Intelligence (NKUA), a Master’s Degree in Music Technology (University of York, UK) and a first degree in Physics (NKUA). He also has a piano diploma and a degree of higher musical theory and counterpoint. He currently works as a research fellow of the Medical School (NKUA – 1st Psychiatric Clinic of Aeginition Hospital) and a post-doctoral researcher (NKUA – Department of Philosophy, School of Philosophy). George’s research interests involve mainly the cognitive and philosophical sides of two fundamental aspects of human behavior, namely of morality and music. Nevertheless, they also extend to the philosophical issues arising from the modern research and practice in the field of Music Technology. Since 2011 he has been teaching aspects Philosophy and Cognitive Science at a postgraduate level and specifically in courses related to fields like Music Cognition, Neuroethics and AI ethics.
Christiana Adamopoulou
Christiana studied music at Ionian University, (Corfu, Greece) and music therapy at Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge, UK). She obtained her PhD in music therapy from Ionian University. Christiana has twenty years’ experience in teaching music both in mainstream and special needs schools. As a practicing music therapist, she has worked primarily with children in the autistic spectrum and with children and adults with learning disabilities. Her research interests cover a wide range of subjects, including music therapy with young adults, music therapy and special education, adult learning and community music. She is also trained in group psychotherapy.
Ioanna Zioga
Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Music Studies, University of Athens
Ioanna Zioga is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Music Studies, University of Athens, with specialty in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music. She is also a scientific associate at the University Mental Health, Neurosciences and Precision Medicine Research Institute in Athens. She received her undergraduate degree from the Department of Music Studies, University of Athens. She holds an MSc in Music, Mind & Brain from Goldsmiths University of London, with distinction. She completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Queen Mary University of London, fully-funded by a scholarship, where she investigated the relationship between music learning and creativity using electroencephalography, computational, and behavioural methods. Subsequently, she completed her first postdoc at Queen Mary, where she studied two-person brain synchronization during eye-contact. She also was a postdoctoral researcher at the Donders Institute for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Netherlands, investigating language and creativity using magnetoencephalography. She has published more than 25 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.
email: izioga@med.uoa.gr
Martha Papadogianni-Kouranti
Post-Doc Researcher, Seconded Teacher (2024-2025)
Department of Music Studies, University of Athens
Martha Papadogianni-Kouranti studied musicology at the Department of Music Studies, University of Athens (2003-2008). She succeeded at the ASEP written competition of 2008 and began working as a music teacher in secondary public education. In 2011, she was accepted to the Department of Acoustics, Communication and Technology of the Technical University of Berlin (Msc in 2014). Her thesis focused on impacts of tactile stimulation on rhythm and pitch perception of adults and children with cochlear implants. Since 2014, she works as a music teacher in primary public education in Athens. She completed her PhD thesis in Music Technology at the Department of Music Studies of the National University of Athens (February 2024), entitled: “Auditory-tactile music perception: examining beat sensitivity and sensorimotor synchronization in educational context”. Her research work has been presented at national and international conferences, while part of her thesis has been published in the Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces. She is currently a secondedteacher and postdoctoral researcher at the Music Department of UoA, focusing on the multisensory sound perception of people with hearing disabilities. Since 2018, she is a member of the Intercultural Orchestra of the National Opera Greece (cello).
marthapapaku@music.uoa.gr
Antonis Alexakis
PhD Researcher
Antonis Alexakis holds a BSc in Mathematics from University of Patras, an MSc in Knowledge Based Systems from Heriot-Watt University and a PhD from the University of Athens, Dpt of Music Studies. He has an active presence in the IT industry for more than 25 years. In the past he has taken part in several EU projects (FP4 & FP5). Lately, he has taken part in MIROR project as an IT expert. His work entails mostly computational analyses of musical data. He has an interest in stringology, Machine learning and AI music related constructs.
Eleni Skarkou
• Composer
• Guitar Soloist
• Musicologist
• Music technologist
• Educational
• Economist
Member of
• the Board of Directors of the Greek National Opera
• the Board of the Union of Greek Composers as Vice President
• the Editorial Team of the magazine of Ε.Ε.Μ. “Polytonon” as editor in chief, columnist, art creative director and design developer.
• the Economic Chamber of Greece
PhD candidate at Ionian University
She investigates the Participatory Music Interactive Creation
Personal website: skarkou.gr