Elias Tzortzakakis is a Research & Development engineer, member of the Centre for Cultural Informatics (CCI) of the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) since 2008. He holds a Master of Science in Information Systems (AUEB) and a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering (NTUA).

He has expertise in CIDOC-CRM, conceptual modelling, semantic data, services, terminology and documentation management systems, applications for cultural heritage and thesauri development. He has been the project manager of collaboration projects with the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (GNM) and the technical coordinator in both European and National funded research projects.