Mania Aikaterini

Dr. Mania Aikaterini is a Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the Technical University of Crete. She specializes in Perception-based Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, and Human-Computer Interaction. Her research focuses on 3D graphics, simulation engineering, and human factors in virtual environments.

Education:

• B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Crete (1994)
• M.Sc. in Advanced Computing (Global Computing and Multimedia), University of Bristol (1996)
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Bristol (2001)

Her career includes tenure as an Assistant Professor at the University of Sussex (UK) and research roles at Hewlett Packard Laboratories and NASA Ames Research Centre. She leads the SURREAL research team (http://surreal.tuc.gr) and contributes to the Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications Laboratory. She has served as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Applied Perception and Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments.

Teaching responsibilities include courses on Introduction to Computer Programming and Computer Graphics.