Dr. Sophia Bakogianni graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Art History from the same Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She also has a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Cultural Organizations Management from the Hellenic Open University and a Master degree (M.Ed.) in Education from the Hellenic Open University. She holds a PhD in Social Information Systems from the Open University of Cyprus. Her PhD dissertation, entitled “Understanding Museum Social Media Experiences”, investigates the use of museum social media and the overall experience of them, using elements from museum studies, computer–mediated studies and communication theories.
She works as an archaeologist-art historian at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens. She has also worked as a researcher in EU projects and she has published the results of her research in these projects in international and Greek conferences.