Experience

ClubNFT

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scholar in Residence (NFTs & Culture) @ RightClickSave.com

  • Apr 2022 - 1 year 9 months

  Right Click Save is a leading online magazine for crypto art, NFTs and culture founded by ClubNFT. My first article as a Scholar in Residence, “Are NFTs a real solution for museums?”, was published in April. https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/are-nfts-a-real-solution-for-museums



USEUM Collectibles

• Blockchain Services

• Co-Founder

  • Aug 2021 - 2 years 5 months

  London, England, United Kingdom Founded UCL spin-out USEUM Collectibles (research-driven consultancy on NFTs & culture) with funding from Research England's HEI Fund. Clients include: Natural History Museum, London — Commissioned to explore NFTs as a potential fundraising medium for the institution, assessing the technology environmentally, as well as commercially, identifying opportunities and highlighting associated risks. With more than 80 million objects in its collections, the Natural History Museum in London is… Show more Founded UCL spin-out USEUM Collectibles (research-driven consultancy on NFTs & culture) with funding from Research England's HEI Fund. Clients include: Natural History Museum, London — Commissioned to explore NFTs as a potential fundraising medium for the institution, assessing the technology environmentally, as well as commercially, identifying opportunities and highlighting associated risks. With more than 80 million objects in its collections, the Natural History Museum in London is considered the world's best natural history museum. The NHM is the 10th most-visited museum globally. Cure3 (Artwise Curators & Bonhams) — Commissioned to be the NFT Project Partner of Cure3 2023, leading the incorporation of NFT artists into the main exhibition. Work involves primarily partnerships development in web3, collaborating with well-established NFT artists and contributing to the exhibition's curation. Cure3 is an acclaimed contemporary art fundraising exhibition devised and curated by Artwise Curators in partnership with Bonhams to raise awareness and funds for Cure Parkinson’s charity. To date Cure3 has raised over £1,200,000 for Cure Parkinson’s ground-breaking clinical trials, which are aimed exclusively at discovering better medical treatments for this degenerative disease. Show less



European Blockchain Association e.V.

• Germany
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member of EBA's NFT Working Group

  • Jan 2022 - 2 years

  Honoured to be invited to become a member of EBA's NFT Working Group, where we are looking to make an impact (educational, policy-related or otherwise) on how NFTs are perceived and leveraged in Europe, helping EBA's overarching mission to empower the European Blockchain ecosystem. The European Blockchain Association (EBA) is in collaboration with the European Commission.



UCL

• South Korea
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• UKRI AHRC Innovation Leadership Fellow (UCL Department of Information Studies)

  • Jan 2019 - 5 years

  London, United Kingdom I was awarded an AHRC Leadership Fellowship for Early Career Researchers under the strand “Creative and Digital Economy Innovation Leadership Fellows”. In collaboration with the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, this project explores ways museums can utilise emerging technologies to generate revenue from their digitised collections, in order to address one of their greatest challenges, i.e. sustaining funding.

• Honorary Researcher - Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

  • Apr 2018 - 5 years 9 months

  London, United Kingdom I was awarded the title of Honorary Researcher from the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) for my PhD project, USEUM, and its impact beyond academia.



USEUM LTD

• China

• Co-Founder

  • Jan 2012 - 12 years

  London, United Kingdom Art theorist André Malraux was the first to envision "Le musée imaginaire", "the museum without walls" as it was translated that exhibits the world's greatest art all under one roof, free of georgraphical constraints. A realisation of Malraux's imaginary museum is USEUM, a virtual museum that democratises art. USEUM exhibits 84,000 paintings, illustrations & drawings by 8,000 classic artists and nearly 2,000 participant contemporary artists from 106 countries around the world. With more than… Show more Art theorist André Malraux was the first to envision "Le musée imaginaire", "the museum without walls" as it was translated that exhibits the world's greatest art all under one roof, free of georgraphical constraints. A realisation of Malraux's imaginary museum is USEUM, a virtual museum that democratises art. USEUM exhibits 84,000 paintings, illustrations & drawings by 8,000 classic artists and nearly 2,000 participant contemporary artists from 106 countries around the world. With more than 100,000 artwork ratings to date, USEUM proudly features one of the first ever democratically-curated art exhibitions. USEUM's most notable feature is "Download Artworks" as it materialises the accessibility of art online. The platform provides 22,000 copyright-vetted images of artworks, including those of famous masterpieces, free to download and use, even commercially, in any jurisdiction around the world. USEUM begun as the Ph.D. project of its Founder Foteini Valeonti at the UCL in London with the title "Making art accessible with crowdsourcing". USEUM has received various disctintions, including EU's prestigious Seal of Excellence award, and it has been featured on numerous national and international media such as The Times, UCL's Bartlett Annual Review and Wall St. International. Show less



Museums Computer Group (MCG)

• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos

• Committee Member

  • Dec 2020 - 3 years 1 month

  London, England, United Kingdom Museums Computer Group is a vivid community of thousands of museum professionals, whilst MCG’s annual conference is amongst the leading conferences in Digital Humanities in the UK and internationally. As a Committee Member I lead the group's Website Team.



Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

• United Kingdom
• Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• AHRC Peer-Reviewer (Digital Humanities)

  • Mar 2021 - May 2021

  I was invited by the AHRC to review grant proposals for a Digital Humanities call for funding.



Artlogic

• India
• Graphic Design

• iOS Software Developer (part-time)

  • May 2015 - Jan 2019

  London, United Kingdom Sole responsible for the maintenance (fixes and improvements) and the development of new features for the iPhone and iPad apps of Artlogic.



Ravensbourne

• Real Estate

• Tutor

  • Jan 2011 - Apr 2012

  London, United Kingdom Designed and taught the "Communication and Visualisation" unit for the BA (Hons) Sound Design course and the "Mobile application development" unit for the BA (Hons) Product Design course. Also delivered a series of hands-on workshops for the college's post-graduate students covering Objective-C programming and Augmented Reality software development.



Red Badger

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mobile Software Developer

  • Sep 2011 - Jan 2012

  London, United Kingdom Software Developer of the mobile applications of the Museum of BMW in Munich, Germany. The project was delivered using PhoneGap and Sencha Touch frameworks, following the directive of the managers. More information on the project: http://red-badger.com/our-work/case-study/bmw/



Augmentarium

• Computer Hardware Manufacturing

• Co-founder

  • Mar 2011 - Dec 2011

  London, United Kingdom Augmentarium aimed to become the “Photoshop” of AR; seamless and inexpensive design and implementation of Augmented Reality applications. Conducted the business plan based on the feedback of personal contacts from London’s AR industry, whilst the other co-founder developed the prototype. Augmentarium as a business plan was accepted to be incubated by UCL’s centre of entrepreneurship, UCL Advances, and also won a mentorship through the Business Bootcamp from Rapid Innovation… Show more Augmentarium aimed to become the “Photoshop” of AR; seamless and inexpensive design and implementation of Augmented Reality applications. Conducted the business plan based on the feedback of personal contacts from London’s AR industry, whilst the other co-founder developed the prototype. Augmentarium as a business plan was accepted to be incubated by UCL’s centre of entrepreneurship, UCL Advances, and also won a mentorship through the Business Bootcamp from Rapid Innovation Group. The core business idea behind the venture was to take advantage of (1) the fact Augmented Reality and in particular mobile Augmented Reality is a booming industry and (2) that alternative products were very inefficient at the time; extremely high cost for low ROI. The feedback and traction gathered was promising and the potential was immense, however communication issues within the team where enough to give an end to the business. Show less



Microsoft Hellas

• Microsoft Student Partner

  • 2006 - 2009

  Athens, Greece Prepared and delivered presentations and workshops for Microsoft technologies, contributed in the setup of events both offline across Greece & online in the StudentGuru.gr community and delivered duties of web & commercial designer.



Fluid Ltd

• Lebanon
• Design Services

• Graphic Designer

  • Jun 2008 - Jul 2008

  In-situ photo-montage for proximity marketing installations in Ejekt and Synch music festivals.