Katerina El Raheb (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Performing and Digital Arts at the Fine Arts School – University of Peloponnese in Greece in “Informattics Applications in Performing Arts”. She has collaborated as a Human Computer Interaction researcher with the MADgIK lab at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and Athena Research and Innovation Center since 2009. 

She works in projects that design and develop technologies for Cultural Heritage, artistic creation, and education with a focus on the human-centric approach and methodologies that consider the embodied, moving, expressive, social multifaceted human needs. As a researcher and project manager she worked in several EU and national funded projects related to design and development of digital applications to culture such as BRIDGES, Aria, Transition to 8, DERC, WhoLoDancE, eCultValue, DL.org, e.nventory  since 2024 she is Princible Investigator for UoP team  as a collaborating institution in the research project IMAGINE MOCAP with Interactive Media, Cinematography, Games and Interactive Network Environments.)

 She has published scientific articles and worked as a reviewer in internationally recognized conferences and journals such as JOCCH (Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage), MOCO (International Conference on Movement Computing and is member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and special interest groups such as the SIGCHI and ACM-W.  She is the vice chair of the ACM Greek Chapter SIGCHI group. She holds a PhD from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications (NKUA) on “Conceptual and Experiential Dance Languages: Representation and Interaction”, and an MSc. in Advanced Information Systems, from the same department.

She completed her BSc. in Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens.  She got a professional diploma from Niki Kontaxaki dance school in 2009, and has collaborated as dance artist with Yelp Dance Co., Periigites, Ηamsa, Kinitiras Studio – Κινητήρας Artistic Network, and Onassis Center.  With interest in human movement, embodiment, and improvisation, as well as the social and cultural contexts where dance comes from, her practice and research are focused on studying and creating movement vocabularies in physical and digital spaces.

 Her research domain is Human Computer Interaction and the multidisciplinary domains that combine culture and artistic creation, computer science, and performing arts. As an EMAP/EMARE resident artist she created with Nico Angiuli the video performance “Amazon Dance” that was presented in Athens, Sofia, Turin and Riga. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt.