Academic and administrative staff

Visit the University Profile of each staff member for contact details. We also have a number of notable alumni.

Georgios N. Yannakakis

Director
Game artificial intelligence, affective computing, computational creativity, procedural content generation

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Gordon Calleja

Associate Professor

Game analysis, game studies, media studies, incorporation, board game studies

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Stefano Gualeni

Associate Professor

Game design, philosophy of technology, existentialism, virtual worlds research

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Antonios Liapis

Senior Lecturer

Procedural content generation, computational creativity, game development

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Daniel Vella

Senior Lecturer

Game studies, phenomenology, narratology, aesthetics, literary theory

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Costantino Oliva

Lecturer

Game Studies, Game Design, Game Sound, Musicology, Soundscape Studies, Media Studies

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Rilla Khaled

Visiting Associate Professor

Concordia University Montreal

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Pippin Barr

Scholar in Residence

Concordia University Montreal

Iro Voulgari

Postdoctoral Researcher

Serious Games, Technology-Enhanced Learning, Game-Based Learning, Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Konstantinos Makantasis

Postdoctoral Researcher

Statistical learning, deep learning, tensor-based machine learning

Daniele Gravina

Postdoctoral Researcher

Evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence

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David Melhart

Ph.D. Student

Affective computing, player modelling, AI-assisted design

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Melinda Sue Mangion

Ph.D. Student

Philosophy of mind, videogames and education, philosophy of technology

Renata Ntelia

Ph.D. Student
Transmediality, comparative narratology, philosophy of games

Stefano Caselli

Ph.D. Student
Phenomenology, game studies, memory studies

Marvin Zammit

Ph.D. Student
Game development, procedural content generation, artificial intelligence

Emmanouil Xilakis

Ph.D. Student
Spatial forms Analysis and Generation, Virtual Environments, Design and Architecture

Konstantinos Sfikas

Research Support Officer

Game development, procedural content generation, artificial intelligence

Matthew Barthet

Research Support Officer
Procedural content generation, computational creativity, artificial intelligence

Lara Caruana Montaldo

Research Support Officer
Artificial Intelligence, Computational Game Creativity

Jasper Schellekens

Research Support Officer

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Renita Agius

Administrator II