Maria Theodoridou is Research & Development Engineer at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Institute of Computer Science (FORTH-ICS), Information Systems Laboratory and the Centre for Cultural Informatics (CCI). She holds a Master of Applied Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada (1985) and a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1983). 

Maria has been actively involved in more than 20 national and international cultural information systems' projects. Her research interests include semantic web technologies, mapping technologies, conceptual modelling, cultural information systems and semantic interoperability. Currently, she coordinates the mapping technology activities of CCI that include the X3ML Toolkit a set of small, open source, microservices that assist the data provisioning and aggregation process for information integration, extensively used for mapping and transforming data from cultural heritage institutions, such as archives, libraries, and museums, but equally for research institutes of descriptive sciences such as earth sciences, biodiversity, clinical studies and e-Health. Maria was the technical/scientific coordinator of FORTH-ICS in several recent EU projects (ITN-DCH, ARIADNE, PARTHENOS, VRE4EIC, E-RIHS PP). She is currently the scientific coordinator of FORTH-ICS for the EU HORIZON 2020 Projects ARIADNEplus and 4CH.