Alexander Mikroyannidis

Dr Alexander Mikroyannidis is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Knowledge Media Institute of the UK Open University. His expertise is mainly in information and knowledge management with the use of Semantic and Social Web technologies, such as ontologies and folksonomies. He holds a PhD in Informatics from Manchester Business School, an MPhil in Computation from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST), and a BEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece. He has contributed to the 5th, 6th, and 7th Framework Programme of the European Community, through participation in ROLE (IST-2009-231396), DEMO-net (IST-2006-27219), CASPAR (IST-2005-33572), and PARMENIDES (IST-2001-39023). He is currently involved in two European projects, ROLE and OpenScout, working on Semantic Web technologies for adaptive Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and Open Educational Resources (OERs).