Athos Agapiou obtained his diploma from the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (2005). Two years later, in 2007, he obtained an MSc in geoinformatics from the same university. Also, he holds an MΑ from the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus (2010), while in 2013, he received his PhD in the field of remote sensing archaeology. Since 2021, he has been an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Geoinformatics of the Cyprus University of Technology, holder of the "Geoinformatics and Earth Observation" chair, while at the same time, he is the coordinator of the research activities of the EOCult laboratory. Since 2022 he has been the Deputy Director of the UNESCO Chair of "Digital Cultural Heritage". His scientific interests include the fields of Earth observation and geoinformatics for archaeological research and cultural heritage landscapes. In 2023, he was awarded the 1st Young Scientist Award by the Young Scientist Innovation Network (YSIN) of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE). Since 2024, he has been a member of the Young Academy of Europe.