> Professional Activities
> Peer Reviewer
Peer Reviewer, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship fund, ongoing since September 2020, reviewing grant submissions and giving feedback on their innovation potential, robustness, value for money and viability
> e-stitches collective / e-stitches London– Founder and Co-organiser
e-textiles meetup, founded in November 2014, co-organised with Melissa Coleman (2014-2020) and Irini Papadimitriou (2014-2017), and then with Emilie Gilles (2020-2023) in London only 2014-2017, during COVID there were 6 chapters across Europe. I stepped back to an advisor role since summer 2023-present. Now its led by Sarah Robertson and Lucie Hernandez.
> Editorial Board Member
Editorial Board Member for the Springer Special Issue AI & Society Digital Human Twins Issue November 2024- July 2025
https://link.springer.com/journal/146/updates/27696808
Editorial Board Member for The Body, Space Technology Journal since November 2015 to present http://bstjournal.com
Editorial Board Member for academic journal, Intellect’s Virtual Creativity, ISSN 23979704, ONLINE ISSN 23979712, Editor Dr Denise Doyle, since January 2021
Journal Peer reviewer for MIT’s Leonardo Journal http://www.leonardo.info/leoinfo.html 2013–2015
> Mentor & Curator
Mentor for S+T+ARTS in Motion Acceleration Programme as part of S+T+ARTS IN THE CITY 2 hours, November 2024 for artist Adrien Lucca https://starts.eu/starts-in-the-city-artists/
Residency Co-curator London-Barcelona Immensiva Exchange 2024 with Elliott Burns of Offsite.org and in collaboration with Alejandro Marin at Espronceda, Barcelona – it ran June 24th-30 in London and July 15th to 30th, 2024 in Barcelona
https://www.immensiva.com/
For the Immensiva virtual reality residency program, since February 2020, as well as part of an Immensiva Virtual Art Think Tank, since November 2020, as well as External Jury Member for the Quintessence Dome Prize 2020 & 2021: for best Artistic Virtual Reality Residency project , all hosted by Esprocenda Institute of Art and Culture, Barcelona, Spain.
> Expert Evaluator
External Evaluator for Promotions Panel for the University for the Arts London, for London College of Fashion, for two Readers and two Professor applications, October 2021.
External Evaluator for promotion to Associate Professor, for Dr Max Schleser’s application, for Academic Promotions Committee, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, Australia, August 2021.
External Evaluator for promotion to Assistant Professor, for Dr Afroditi Psarra, for the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, US, August 2021.
External Evaluator for promotion to University Lecturer, for Susan Clements-Vivian, School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, Canada
Expert Evaluator, European Commission Funding Evaluation Panel for ICT-55 Immersive Technologies, European Commission offices, Luxembourg – to select 8-10 projects to be funded at 2.5 million Euros each. Duration: December 15, 2019 – January 31, 2020
External Technology Advisor, Defragmentation – Curating Contemporary Music research project from February 2017 – March Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes Germany, developed jointly by MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues, Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Donaueschinger Musiktage, and in cooperation with Ultima Festival Oslo
> External Jury Member
Artistic Advisor STARTS Prize 2019 – submission of curated selection of potential artistic prize winners, jury2019/ April 30th, 2019 https://starts-prize.aec.at/en/
External Jury Member for the REFREAM STARTS.eu funding application selection at Department of Fashion and Technology, Seminarraum 1, Tabakfabrik Linz, Linz, Austria – for Call 1. July 10 -11th, 2019;
External Jury Member for the VERTIGO STARTS Residencies STARTS.eu funding application selection at IRCAM headquarters in Paris, 1 place Igor Stravinsky 75004 Paris, France, for Call 2 – January 31 online and in person February 12-13, 2018, Call 3 – May 14th online and in person May 24/25, 2019 https://vertigo.starts.eu/vertigo-project/2018-jury/
> Artistic Advisor
Artistic Advisor STARTS Prize 2019 – submission of curated selection of potential artistic prize winners, April 30th, 2019;
> External Jury Member
External Jury Member for the VERTIGO STARTS Residencies STARTS.eu funding application selection at IRCAM headquarters in Paris, 1 place Igor Stravinsky 75004 Paris, France, for Call 2 – January 31 online and in person February 12-13, 2018, Call 3 – May 14th online and in person May 24/25, 2019.
> External Technology Adviser
External Technology Advisor, Defragmentation – Curating Contemporary Music research project from February 2017 – March 2019 – addressing themes of “Gender & Diversity”, “Decolonization”, “Technology” and “Curation” in new music, toward better practices and more adequate discourses in these areas. Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes Germany, developed jointly by MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues, Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Donaueschinger Musiktage, and in cooperation with Ultima Festival Oslo.
> Computer Arts Society
Professional member of the Computer Arts Society, British Computer Society, since March 2017.
> Editorial Board Member
Editorial Board for The Body, Space Technology Journal, since November 2015;
> Peer-Reviewer
Paper peer-reviewer, HCI International 2016 conference (Human Computer Interaction) since November 2015;
> Academic Research Consultant
Academic Research Consultant, product development, Pling Toys, April–Dec 2015;
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> Conference Review Board Member
Conference review board member for Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA London) conference 2014, 2015, since 2013–2017.