Dimosthenis Akoumianakis

Dr. Dimosthenis Akoumianakis is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, Hellenic Mediterranean University. He holds visiting professorships at Hellenic Open University, University of Derby (UK), and Oxford Brookes University (UK). His academic journey includes studies at the Universities of Huddersfield (BA, 1990) and Kent (MSc 1995, PhD 1999), where his thesis earned the IBM Best Thesis Award.

His research focuses on collaborative technologies, human-computer interaction, accessibility, and networked music performance. He pioneered the MusiCoLab and DIAMOUSES frameworks for distributed music collaboration. Key contributions include work on digital materiality, virtual communities of practice, and eHealth interventions. He founded ISTLab (2006), a research unit active in EU-funded projects and Google’s CS4HS initiative.

Dr. Akoumianakis has supervised 10 postgraduate students and advised doctoral candidates at Hellenic Open University and Catholic University of Louvain. He served as Head of the Department of Applied Informatics & Multimedia (2007–2009), Director of the postgraduate program "Informatics and Multimedia" (2012–2014), and Director of the Lattice research lab (2015–2019). His work integrates interdisciplinary approaches, blending computer science with social sciences to address challenges in collaborative systems and organizational practices.

Notable achievements include editing journals like Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media, co-authoring a monograph on collaborative systems, and contributing to EU standards for accessibility technologies. His research on digital traces, boundary spanning e-collaboration, and virtual settlements explores how digital artifacts shape organizational and cultural practices.