Evridiki Papachristou.

is Assistant Professor of  International Hellenic University

Evridiki is a devoted fashion engineer, an academic, a 3D virtual product development expert. Curator, educator, consultant, writer, reviewer and rapporteur of European projects.

Evridiki (Eurydice), is an assistant professor in Creative Design; Clothing Department of the International Hellenic University; the only public higher educational program in fashion and clothing in Greece.

After many years spent researching and practicing the effective integration of 3D virtual prototype in the apparel industry, she is currently conducting applied research on the intersection of fashion and data mining and knowledge discovery, to further the technology and its adoption. Evridiki is also interested in the role of Industry 4.0 in creating institutional, social and cultural change towards more sustainable and circular practices.

She is also a research member of the CAD/CAM Lab (Technical University of Crete- School of Production Engineering & Management). Recent research projects involve a Conceptual Fashion Product Design Assisted by Artificial Intelligence - AI-CFPD (Project Code: T1EDK-03464), co-financed by Greece and the EU. The project aims at facilitating the design of clothing products, particularly in the field of product concept development, by providing personalized proposals to the designer as inspiration, by developing tool based on Artificial Intelligence methods. The tools will work in addition to existing support systems for the development of clothing products such as Life Cycle Management Systems, CAD (Graphics), 3D Modeling systems, commonly used by companies and designers.