Dr. Despoina Valatsou was born in 1975 in Athens, Greece. She has studied History and Archaeology with a specialization in History (first degree, 1998) at the University of Athens, and Digital Media (Master of Arts, 2000) at the University of Sussex (UK). She holds a PhD in History (2014) from the University of Athens. Her PhD thesis is entitled “The emergence of new sites of memory on the Internet”. Her academic interests involve digital humanities, digital history, crowdsourcing and public history, memory studies. She speaks English and French.