Dr Ioanna Symeonidou is an architect engineer specializing in digital media for design and manufacturing. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, in the thematic area of “Architectural Design with Digital Media”. She has more than 20 years of professional experience in architectural design and construction in Greece, Spain, Germany and Austria and has worked as Lead Designer and Site Architect for residential, commercial and large scale constructions, including a Velodrome, two Metro Stations, a SPA complex and museums. She has collaborated with several award-winning architecture studios and construction companies like Anamorphosis Architects (Athens), Schwarzenbacher Architekten (Graz), HENN (Berlin) και FCC SA (Spain).

She has graduated from the Architecture Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with Honours, and she has completed her postgraduate studies at the Architectural Association in London in the thematic area of Emergent Technologies and Design. Her doctoral dissertation at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki focuses on digital design and construction methods.

Dr. Symeonidou teaches architectural design studios and seminars of digital design at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly. In the past she held teaching and research positions at the Architecture School of Graz University of Technology in Austria, at the Department of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and has been visiting professor at the postgraduate courses of the International Hellenic University of Greece, and the Hellenic Open University.

She is the author of numerous papers, published in scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, and has participated in research projects in Greece and abroad. She has lectured in Europe and Asia, and for her work she has been awarded International Awards for Research and Innovation.