Dr Marinos Koutsomichalis is a Lecturer in Creative Multimedia where he
co-directs the Media Arts and Design Research Lab. He has a PhD in Electronic Music and New Media (De Montfort University, UK) and a MA in Music Composition with Digital Media (University of York, UK). He has held research positions at the Department of Computer Science of the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (Trondheim, NO) and at the Interdepartmental Center for Multimedia Research of the University of Turin (IT). He has lectured at the University of Wolverhampton (Birmingham, UK) and at the Technological Educational Institute of Crete (Rethymnon, GR). 

He is broadly interested in the materiality of self-generative systems,
(post-)digital objecthood, sound, image, data, landscape, electronic circuitry,
perception, cognition, and the media/technologies we rely upon to mediate, probe, interact, or otherwise engage with the former. His research and artistic activities reciprocally inform one another by virtue of a mixed method that combines situated creative/artistic practice, bespoke software/hardware development, ethnographic research, field-work, critical theory, analysis, workshopping, and DIWO (Do It With Others) experimental making. In this way, they draw on, and concern, various subareas in arts, humanities, science, technology, philosophy, and design. 

He has extensively presented artistic work and led workshops internationally and in all sorts of milieux: from prestigious museums or art festivals to industrial sites and independent artist-run venues. He is also responsible for numerous academic publications in refereed scientific journals and conference proceedings,
and for a book on creative mapping/visualization programming techniques.

Links:
Personal website: http://marinoskoutsomichalis.com/