Dr. Panayiotis Charalambous is a Research Assistant Professor at CYENS and team leader of the V-EUPNEA: Living, Breathing Virtual Worlds MRG of CYENS. He received his PhD on Computer Graphics and Animation from the University of Cyprus. Dr. Charalambous is currently coordinating the ReInherit (H2020), ShareSpace (H2020) and EHEM (JPICH) projects for CYENS, he is the research team leader for the iNicosia flagship project of CYENS and he is actively participating in the implementation of several projects such as PREMIERE (H2020) . Previously he has worked as a Researcher at INRIA Rennes, France and the Cyprus Institute and as a Visiting Academic at the University of Cyprus. He is a member of the ACM and the Eurographics associations and has served as a reviewer of several prestigious journals and conferences such as ACM’s Transactions on Graphics, Computer Graphics Forum, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and for conferences such as ACM Siggraph, Eurographics, Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) and others. He served as conference chair for ACM’s Motion, Interaction and Games 2018 conference (MIG2018), Computer Animation and Social Agents 2023 (CASA2023) and will be short papers chair for Eurographics 2024. His main research interests are Computer Animation, Computer Graphics, Video Games, Digital Cultural Heritage and AI techniques in the service of the aforementioned areas. Websites: https://totis77.github.io/ , https://veupnea.githjub.io.