Professor Emeritus Michael Meimaris is the founder of the New Technologies Laboratory in Communication, Education and the Mass Media of the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies of the University of Athens. He has served as Head of the Faculty as well as Director of the University Research Institute of Applied Communication. He has studied Mathematics in the University of Athens and Statistics and Computer-Based Data Analysis in Paris (Université Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie). His scientific interests involve the application of New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media, Graphics and Computer Animation, the New Technological Communication Environment and its design, Digital Storytelling, Intergenerational Communication and Learning, Visual Communication, Digital Game-Based Learning, Open and Distance Education, as well as the training of educators in the New Technologies field. He is a member of the International Committee and President of the National Committee of the Möbius Awards, member of the Scientific Board of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Nord, as well as of C.I.T.I. of the University of Lisbon and member of the jury of the French Laboratories of Excellence action of the French National Research Agency (ANR). He has been a member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) since 2014. He has been awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques of the French Republic.