Katerina El Raheb, PhD

Senior Researcher in Informatics and Dance, with interests in Human Computer Interaction, user-centered design, movement-based interfaces, semantic representation, ontologies, applications for tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage and the intersection of Computing with Arts and Humanities. She holds a PhD from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) on “Conceptual and Experiential Dance Languages: Representation and Interaction”, and an MSc. in Advanced Information Systems, from the same department. She completed her BSc. in Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens(NTUA) . In addition, she holds a Diploma from N. Kontaxaki Higher Professional Dance School (Niki Kontaxaki) and is an active dance practitioner. She joined MADgIK (Management of Data, Information and Knowledge) Research group (MADgIK) in 2009, and works as a researcher and/or project manager in several EU funded projects related to Digital Libraries, Data Research Infrastructures and ICT for Cultural Heritage, Dance Education and Movement Analysis (DERC, WhoLoDancE -Whole body Interaction Learning for Dance Education , DL.org, e.nventory), eCultValue). Since 2013, she is a research collaborator of Athena Research Center. She has also collaborated as Information System consultant with a multinational industrial company (2003-2005). She is currently an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Performing and Digital Arts at the Fine Arts School - University of Peloponnese in Greece (2019-20). She has worked as a teaching assistant in “Human Computer Interaction” at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications (2011-2016) and is a visiting lecturer in AIMove Post-Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence and Movement, delivered by MINES ParisTech, since 2018.