Yannis Marketakis is a R&D Software Engineer in the Information Systems Laboratory at FORTH-ICS. He holds a Master of Science on Information Systems since 2010. His main research interests include information systems, digital preservation, conceptual modeling and knowledge representation, data integration using semantic web technologies, and software engineering for large-scale infrastructures. He has been involved in several European and national research projects (some indicative are BlueCloud-2026, BlueBRIDGE, CRAEFT, MINGEI and others) and has co-authored more than 45 scientific publications and one book (Cinderella's Stick: A fairytale for Digital Preservation). He has presented his work in several scientific conferences and holds a best paper award (MTSR’20). Since 2019, he is a technology supervisor of the Centre of Cultural Informatics of the Information Systems Laboratory of FORTH-ICS. He has more than 10 years of experience in carrying out applied research in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. He is experienced with the design and implementation of software applications, tools and services for large-scale infrastructures.