This section honorarily features the short bios of the former Chairs of the Department.

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🔵 ℹ️ Former Head of the department (2019-2025)

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Marina Kotzamani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Performing and Digital Arts (DPDA) at the University of the Peloponnese. She served as chair of the DPDA from 2019 to 2025. She holds a Ph.D. in Theater Studies from the City University of New York and has also studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the graduate and undergraduate levels at MIT and University College London (UCL). Her research focuses on the study of productions and performance art in 20th-century theater and contemporary theater. She has special interest in the stage interpretation of Aristophanes and has completed a book titled Anti-Systemic Aristophanes. Modern European Readings on Stage and in the Street (forthcoming). Other representative studies on Aristophanes include “Lysistrata on Broadway” Ancient Comedy and Reception (De Gruyter 2013), and “Aristophanes’ Lysistrata on the Arabic Stage.” (PAJ). Her recent work also includes the translation and afterword for P. B. Shelley’s book, Swellfoot or Oedipus Tyrannus (2025) as well as “Lysis and Transformations at the Amphiareion of Oropos” in Performance and Public Space (forthcoming). Her studies have been published in internationally acclaimed journals including Theater/Yale School of Drama, PAJ, and Theatre Survey. Ms. Kotzamanis held a full time position at Columbia University in the U.S. for several years and has also collaborated as a dramaturg with professional theater companies in New York, such as LaMama and CSC. Moreover, she curates visual art exhibitions.

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🔴 ℹ️ Former deputy head (2019-2025) and head of the department (2025-2026)

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Nikolaos D. Tselikas is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese. He received both his Dipl.-Ing. Degree and his PhD Degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1999 and 2004, respectively. During 1999 – 2004 he was a research associate in the Intelligent Communications and Broadband Networks (ICBNet) Laboratory of NTUA. During 2004 – 2008 he was a senior post-doctoral researcher in the same Laboratory in NTUA. From 2006 to 2009 he was also a Visiting Lecturer, from 2009 to 2013 he was a Lecturer, from 2013 to 2018 he was an Assistant Professor and from 2018 to 2023 he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese (UoP). He has participated in several European and National research projects regarding network services and applications. His research interests include the research areas of creation and provision of telecommunications services in fixed and mobile networks, mobile applications, software and middleware technologies, open APIs, web technologies etc. He has collaborated in software design and development topics with big players in the telecom and informatics industry as well as with national and international universities and academic institutions. Dr. Nikolaos D. Tselikas has published over 100 papers in the pre-mentioned areas in international Journals, Conferences and Book Chapters and his work has received more than 3000 citations. His book “C: From Theory to Practice” is proposed as the main textbook for C-programming courses in approximately 50 Departments in Greek Universities and Technical Institutions. Since 2014, the book has been translated in English and it is available by CRC Press, while it is the recommended textbook in several Universities worldwide. He has been a member of several Technical Committees in international conferences and a reviewer in numerous international journals. He is a member of the IEEE and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

✓ website: https://ntsel.gr/