Anastasia Constantinou

Anastasia is a Senior Officer and the Head of the Innovation Management Sector at the Research and Innovation Support Service of the University of Cyprus, dealing with the protection and management of the intellectual property rights, the knowledge transfer and research valorisation activities and the research and innovation contracts of the University.

She combines academic, industrial, business and consulting background in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Research for more than 30 years having lived and worked in three countries, UK, Greece and Cyprus. She actively supports the development of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Cyprus, having co-founded the IDEA Business Centre, one of the first such structures in Cyprus in 2014 and being a member of its founding Board of Directors.

Anastasia regularly provides mentoring to Cyprus based start-ups and spin-offs and delivers training and presentations on topics related to her expertise. She is also the main inventor of an international industrial patent. Since March 2019 she has been an evaluator for the European Commission for the EIC Accelerator programme.

Anastasia is a Registered Technology transfer Professional (RTTP) since 2024 and the winner of the Madame Figaro Woman of the Year award 2021 in Cyprus in the category "Innovation". In 2019 she was selected to participate in a three-week International Visitor Leadership (IVLP) Program by the U.S. Department of State entitled ‘Entrepreneurship as the Engine of Prosperity and Stability – Strategic Innovation’ in the US.

She holds a BSc in Metallurgy from the University of Manchester, UK, an MSc in Materials Research and a PhD in Materials Engineering from Imperial College London, UK and an MBA (Entrepreneurship) from CIIM, Cyprus.