Dr Maria Economou is assistant professor (Museology and New Technologies) at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean. She studied Archaeology and History of Art at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She carried out an MA in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, UK and completed her doctoral research at the University of Oxford. She worked as a lecturer at the University of Manchester (School of Arts, Histories and Cultures) and the University of Glasgow (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) and as assistant curator (responsible for Information Technology) at the Pitt Rivers Museum of the University of Oxford. She has collaborated with various cultural organisations around the world and has published extensively on museological issues, particularly on the application of new technologies in museums, evaluation and visitor studies, and the digitisation of collections.
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