Faculty

Evangelos Karapanos is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, the Director of the Persuasive Technologies Lab and the Coordinator of the Doctoral Program of the Department of Communication and Internet Studies of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). Dr. Karapanos holds a PhD (cum laude) in Human-Computer Interaction from Eindhoven University of Technology, a MSc in Human-Computer Interaction from University College London, and a BSc in Physics with a specialization in microelectronics from the University of Patras. His expertise is in experience-centered design of interaction with technology. His work is regularly published at top-tier conferences and journals in Human-Computer Interaction and has received more than 1800 citations in the literature (h-index=20, i10-index=38) and a number of awards, including a best paper and a best poster award at Persuasive Technology 2017, an honorable mention for best paper at Ubicomp 2015, and the cum laude distinction for his PhD thesis (given to the top 5% of PhD theses defended annually at the Eindhoven University of Technology). He has acted as Principal Investigator (PI) in a number of projects that focused on the design and evaluation of persuasive technologies in health and sustainability, as well as the development of new methods for the design and evaluation of interactive technologies. Prior to joining the Cyprus University of Technology, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Madeira and Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, and a visiting researcher at Philips Research and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Christos Themistocleous is Lecturer of Consumer Behaviour at CUT. He completed his studies (BSc, MSc, PhD) at the University of Nottingham where he also worked as postdoctoral fellow. His PhD was funded by Experian plc examining psychological drivers of information disclosure. Prior to joining CUT he worked as Lecturer of Consumer Behavior at Henley Business School – University of Reading. His holds memberships with the Society for the Advancement of Behavioural Economics (SABE), the International Association on Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP) and the American Marketing Association (AMA). His current research interests focus on Nudge Theory, Consumer Privacy and Servicescape Behaviour with applied quantitative research methods. 

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PhD students

Loukas Konstantinou holds a bachelors degree (valedictorian) in Communication and Internet Studies from the Cyprus University of Technology. He is a 1^styear PhD student and research assistant in the H2020 project ‘Co-Inform Co-Creating Misinformation-Resilient Societies. Loukas is interested in the design, prototyping and evaluation of technology-mediated nudging interventions.

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Alumni

• Dr. Mary Barreto (PhD thesis), now at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute.
• Evangelos Niforatos, Research assistant, now at Università della Svizzera italiana.
• Dr. Jakob Rogstadius (PhD thesis), now at WHO Uppsala Monitoring Centre.
• Dr. Jayant Venkatanathan (PhD thesis)
• Chrysanthi Konstanti, PhD student, now Researcher and Project Manager at Cardet
• Georgia Leonidou, PhD student, now Education/School Psychologist at the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cyprus
• Ana Caraban, PhD student, Senior Frontend Developer, NOS Inovação
• Rúben Gouveia, PhD student, now Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon
• Paulina Durán Miranda, Research Intern, now Senior Software Engineer, Humane