Panagiota Koltsida is a senior software engineer/research associate, with extensive experience in RTD European funded projects working for the university of Athens (NKUA) and the ATHENA Research Centre. Mrs Koltsida has a degree in informatics from the department of Informatics and Telecommunications of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), and an MSc diploma from the same organization. She has been involved in a series EU funded projects as a technical project manager and software engineer. She is experienced in managing all stages of large scaled distributed software implementation, designing ICT systems and technically coordinating their development. Her research interests include Information Retrieval systems, Data and Metadata Management and geospatial systems, aiming on providing innovative ICT solutions to cross-disciplinary communities.