Valentina Vassallo
v.vassallo@cyi.ac.cy
+ 357 22 208605
Valentina has a background in archaeology (M.A. in Conservation of Cultural Heritage - Archaeology) and a specialization in conservation and management of Cultural Heritage with a major in digital methodologies and technologies (M.A. in Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage - Archaeology and Art History). She was formerly a Fellowship Researcher at the Institute of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage (CNR, Rome), focusing her research activities on 2D/3D archaeological documentation, Geographical Information Systems, and Virtual Museums. In 2009 she joined the STARC of the Cyprus Institute as a Research Assistant in Digital Heritage, focusing her research interests in the development of solutions for multidisciplinary data integration and the definition of a knowledge communication framework for data management and communication process of 3D digital Cultural Heritage assets through new ways of reasoning with information technology, metadata and ontologies. Valentina's PhD at the Cyprus Institute focused on the development of a 3D digital approach for the study and interpretation of archaeological artefacts.
Research interests: Data documentation, 3D digital data acquisition, 3D analysis, Semantics