Dr. Anastasia Constantinou

Anastasia Constantinou is dealing with the management of the Intellectual Property Rights of the University research results and the technology and knowledge transfer of the exploitable research results and knowhow of the University. She is also involved in the activities of the Centre for Entrepreneurship. Anastasia combines academic, industrial, business and consulting background in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Research for more than 25 years. She actively supports the development of start-ups in Cyprus, having played a key role in the design and development of the IDEA Programme and in the design and coordination of the IDEA programme Accelerator training. She has taught academic and practical courses on entrepreneurship and Innovation, business model and business plan formulation. She is also the main inventor of an international industrial patent. Anastasia holds a BSc in Metallurgy from the University of Manchester, UK, an MSc in Materials Research and a PhD in Materials Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK and an MBA (Entrepreneurship) from CIIM, Cyprus.