Ariadne Gazi studied History and Archaeology (major Archaeology and History of Art) at the University of Crete (1992-1997). She received her MSc in Archaeological Science: Archaeological Computing from the University of Southampton, UK in 1999. She has worked: at the Direction of Monuments and Publications Archive of the Ministry of Culture (1998-2002) on the design, development and enrichment of an electronic thesaurus of monuments terms and the indexing and electronic documentation of monuments; at the 25^th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities (2003-2006) on the electronic documentation and recording of the excavational and restoration data of Ancient Aptera, whereas she also participated in several rescue excavations (Aptera, Drapanias, Anapafseos Str.-Chania); for the educational program «ΙΤΗΑΚΑ, Academic Cultural Program in Greece», where she taught Cretan archaeology courses in English (Kolympari, Chania). She has translated from Greek to English archaeological guides on the cities of Ancient Aptera and Minoan Kydonia, and from English to Greek the book by Nancy Tanner On becoming human; she was the bibliography editor in the two volumes of the exhibition: “From The Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000-1100 B.C.”, organized by the «Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation» in New York. From March 2007 until February 2015 she was a member of Special Technical and Laboratory Staff at the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete; from February 25th, 2015 to date she has been a member of Laboratory Teaching Staff at the same Department, where she teaches laboratory courses on Internet resources and computer applications in the scientific fields of History and Archaeology. During the academic year 2021-22 she taught two modules in the vocational training programme Digital Humanities | Centre of Training and Lifelong Training (ΚΕΔΙΒΙΜ), University of Crete (“Data definition, categorization and use in the Digital Humanities”& “Internet & Digital Humanities”).

Research interests: Digital Humanities; Cultural Heritage and Internet Resources; Documentation and Management of Archaeological Monuments; Public Archaeology; History of Archaeology

Papers in Conferences and Scientific Meetings:

• “Cretan Archaeology of the 1950s and the 1960s: an engendered endeavor” (27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Kiel – Virtual 6-11 September 2021)·
• “Archaeology and Tourism in Crete during the 1960s and the 1970s” (in Greek) (25th National Postgraduate Intensive Seminar-Conference Issues of research methodology in the Social Sciences, November 2019)·
• “Internet and Humanities: Prospects and problems of an undergraduate course” (in Greek) (20th Annual Meeting of the Department of History & Archaeology (Ε.Σ.Τ.Ι.Α.), Zaros – Crete, May 2015)