Prof. Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is associate professor at the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and the leader of the “Museum Lab” group at CYENS Center of Excellence/ CUT. Her research and artistic interests include museum studies, photography, visual sociology, and new technologies for museums. She received her PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester (UK) and is the recipient of several scholarships and awards including a Smithsonian Fellowship in Museum Practice (USA), a Fulbright Fellowship (USA) and an Arts and Humanities Research Council Award (UK). Theopisti has published widely on museums and photography and has exhibited her artwork in Cyprus and abroad. She is the author of The Political Museum (Routledge, 2016) and the editor of Museums and Technologies of Presence (Routledge, 2023), Museums and Emerging Technologies: Mediating Difficult Heritage (Berghahn Books, 2022), Museums and Photography: Displaying Death (co-editor, Routledge, 2017), Museums and Visitor Photography (MuseumsEtc, 2016), and Photography and Cyprus: Time, Place, Identity (I.B.Tauris/ Routledge, 2014). Apart from a researcher, she is a visual artist with several solo and group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad.