Chrysoula Bekiari is an R & D engineer in the Information Systems Laboratory and the Centre for Cultural Informatics of the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH.  She holds a Master of Arts in Computer Science from Queens College of the City University of New York and a degree in Mathematics from University of Patras.  She has 40 years of experience in carrying out applied research in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. Her tasks includes requirements analysis and functional design of advanced information systems of cultural informatics, knowledge organization, conceptual modeling of information structures for supporting semantic interoperability, harmonization of conceptual database schemas and ontologies.  Since 1985 until today she has participated in more than 35  EU and national funded projects, having different roles  as technical staff,  coordinator,  or scientific responsible. Since 2002, she has participated in CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group and CIDOC FRBR Harmonization Meetings worked as a contributor and co editor. 

Projects she is currently involved include:

• CALLOS: Conservation of Athens antiquities with Laser and Lidar technologies Open to Science and public
• PROTEAS: Advanced System for collection and management of analytical data for documentation and conservation of large-scale paintings in an open laboratory
• SSHOC:  The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
• Digital Aposphragisma of Hagionymous Islands
• CMBR: Centre for the study and sustainable exploitation of Marine Biological Resources
• Apollonis infrastructure - National Infrastructure for the Digital Humanities and Sciences and for Language Research and Innovation
• CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY: New Technologies in Research, Study, Documentation and Access to Information on Cultural Heritage Objects and Monuments (POLITEIA-II)
• Mediterranean Landscapes of Culture: cultural landscapes of the past in the time of the Mediterranean