Marinos Ioannides

Dr Marinos Ioannides is the founder and holder of the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage and Director of the Digital Heritage Research Lab at the Cyprus University of Technology. He holds an MSc in computer science and PhD in engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, specialising in 3D volumetric reconstruction from digitised data. A pioneer in digital heritage, Dr Ioannides is the founder of the first-of-its-kind Research Centre on Digital Cultural Heritage in Cyprus. He has secured over €12 million in highly competitive EU-funded projects since 2013, including EU FP7-MSCA ITN-DCH and EU FP7-ViMM. He is the main author of the EU Study VIGI2020/654 on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage and a key contributor to the innovative “Memory Twin“ methodology. His achievements have earned him international awards such as the EU KIT, IBM and Tartessos Prizes. Since 2020, he has also been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. His leadership has firmly positioned Cyprus as a global hub for digital cultural heritage.

CV updated on 2025-09-15.