Nephelie Chatzidiakou is a Research Associate of the Digital Curation Unit since October 2013 and she is currently working on Europeana eCloud and DARIAH projects. In 2012 she has been working for the Micro & Nano Research Association, located in IMEL- NCSR Demokritos, on web developing and database construction, while earlier she has been working on similar projects for the Technological Educational Institute of Athens (2010-2011). In 2003-2004 she has been working as Research Assistant at the Ethnography Laboratory of the Faculty of Anthropology and History at the University of the Aegean, where she was responsible for indexing the ethnographical resources of the Lab and developing a relevant database.

Her academic background is in both Humanities and Social Sciences, since her first degree is in French Language and Literature from the University of Athens and her Master’s degree is in Social Anthropology from the University of the Aegean (2004). Additionally, she has followed a specialization programme at the University of the Aegean on Methods of Gathering and Analyzing Research Data in Social Sciences (2012-2013) and a programme of professional training on Promoting the Cultural Heritage and Cultural Creativity through Multimedia (2004). Finally, from 2005 to 2009 she has been working as a doctoral student at the EHESS, Paris, on a thesis regarding alternative socialization and conducted fieldwork in several European countries.