He has studied classics, archaeology, cultural heritage and IT in Greece (Ioannina, BA), in Britain (MA at UCL, PhD at King's) and in Spain (Tenerife). His research interests lie in museology, archaeology, education (including distance learning), tourism (including city tourism) and IT applications, including digitisation, virtual reality, augmented reality and mobile applications. He has lectured (including university teaching), excavated and led tours to the UK, Greece, Cyprus, Australia, Spain, Syria, Oman, Turkey, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. He has conducted extensive archaeological and museum/cultural heritage work in Greece, Jordan, Syria and Oman.Dr Papaioannou is General-Secretary of the Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies and a member of ICOM.