Dr. Dimitris Protopsaltou

Dr. Dimitris Protopsaltou is an associate partner of the Veria Public Library and responsible of its media and communication strategy that has led to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation award for promoting access to learning in 2010. He has contributed to the EU projects EuropeanaLocal, PULMAN, CALIMERA, Untold Stories and ISTAR. He has developed the “Future Library”, the first social network in Greece for people in cultural institutions. He is also the Managing Director and one of the co-founders of Digital Humans, a start up of the University of Geneva to research and develop a Virtual Try-On application for fashion retail. He received his PhD in Information Systems from the University of Geneva in 2007. He is a University of Manchester (UMIST) graduate holding a B.Eng in Software Engineering and an M.Sc in Technology Management from the Manchester School of Management. He collaborated with the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva, involved in a Swiss National Foundation project in the area of online arbitration.