Valina Geropanta

Vasiliki (Valina) Geropanta, is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning with ICT at the Technical University of Crete, Faculty of Architecture. She holds a PhD in Smart City from the Università degli studi di Roma, Sapienza, Italy, an Ma in Housing & Urbanism from Architectural Association, School of Architecture, London, UK, and a Master’s Degree of Architect-Engineer from the University of Patras.

Her research interests are on innovation ecosystems, the smart - intelligent cities (digital and virtual innovation environments, smart clusters και hyperconnected - intelligent districts, living labs, smart environments and smart buildings), user-experience data, culutral heritage and climate change. She has participated in European research projects in capacity building in the field of Smart Tourism and Smart City (eg LMPΤ and Discover - Erasmus Plus, KA2), while she has been awarded grants and funding for research and lecturing in Cambridge, India, Korea, Peru, Qatar, Vietna, Italy and Lebanon. She has published extensively on urban and architectural development with ICT, smart cities, smart tourism and the use of ICT into international monuments, museums, housing, and contemporary education at international journals. She has also extensive participation in international conferences, workshops and seminars.

In 2018 she was nominated for the RIBA International Award 2019 for her contribution in Architecture through leadership of thought, education and research. The same year she was selected to open the 7ο International symposium of the UNESCO chairs in Peru, discussing about the impact of ICT in the cultural revival of Rome. In 2018 she founded Avrions, (www.avrions.com) , an activity that aims at raising awareness for the use of ICT in contemporary cities and at creating a mechanism of knowledge distribution and exchange with the objective to bring cultural and spatial innovation.