Dr. Zinonas C. Antoniou (M) is a Research Special Scientist at the Electronic Health (eHealth) Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Cyprus in 2018 and the 5-year Engineering Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens in 2010.

His research interests focus on adaptive video delivery for real-time applications, mobile health (mHealth), and electronic health (eHealth) systems. Dr. Antoniou has over 10 years of experience in eHealth and mHealth systems, with strong expertise in interoperability protocols, architectures, and standards.

He has been actively involved in numerous national and European research projects and has participated in more than ten eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure (eHDSI) test events, contributing to the cross-border exchange of interoperable health documents between Cyprus and other EU Member States.

Dr. Antoniou has extensive expertise in MyHealth@EU interoperability frameworks, which leverage the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) and its refined eHealth European Interoperability Framework (ReEIF). His work emphasizes semantic and technical standardization through common data formats, terminologies, and protocols to enable the secure, cross-border exchange of patient health data, including ePrescriptions and Patient Summaries, as a core part of the European Health Data Space (EHDS). He is highly familiar with the implementation of HL7 CDA artifacts and the use of the ART-DECOR platform (originally adopted from epSOS) for managing interoperability specifications such as Patient Summary, ePrescription, eDispensation, and Original Clinical Document, and he is now actively exploring FHIR-based standards and services as part of the ongoing evolution of MyHealth@EU.