Art History faculty are diverse in their research interests which revolve around the following areas:

• Architectural history and theory
• Art and science in Early Modern Europe
• Art and psychoanalysis
• Art and politics
• Ideology and aesthetics in Modern and Contemporary art practice
• Contemporary art curation
• Feminist art theory
• Post-colonialism
• Cross-cultural connections
• Performativity and the culture of the illustrated book

Scholarly and research activity in the Music Department is organized around the following themes:

Music Performance 

Research areas include a wide scope of genres and styles and repertoire range from Early Music to Jazz and Contemporary styles. Music faculty have performed in major venues with prominent orchestras and ensembles in Greece and abroad.

Musicology

Research areas include the academic study of a range of topics from the music of Greek composers such as Theodorakis to Armenian composers such as Mansurian and Komitas.  Music research is also conducted in areas of sound, experimental music, music technology, education and reception.

Composition 

Music faculty are involved in the creative area of music research including the composition of experimental and electroacoustic music, jazz music, songwriting, arranging music for ensembles and composition for film and media.

Research related Visual Arts projects focus  on the following themes:

• Environmental issues or Environmental art: climate change, weather-related research, marine pollution and other pollution, biodiversity
• Sustainability: provenance, archiving, conservation
• Biotechnology: earth and human engineering, biodiversity, interventions on the human genome, the Human Genome Project and its implications
• Advanced Technology and AI projects - in progress: projects using advanced technology and AI
• Socially engaged projects: Raising awareness on Social and Anthropological issues that facilitate participation  
• Gender-related projects: diversity and acceptance

Theater and Dance Department research relates to the following areas:

• Interdisciplinary performance practices in the 21st century 
• Musicality and musical concepts as a metaphor and tools in performance making 
• Psychophysical performer training and in particular training approaches at the intersection of 'acting', 'dancing' and 'creativity' 
• Improvisational and devising practices in dance/theater 
• Butoh and movement pedagogy 
• Performative installations, site-specific performances, walking performances, and performances in public spaces 
• Performative atmospheres and weather phenomena 
• Mask as a creative medium in ancient Greek and contemporary theatre with an emphasis on subjectivity, corporeality, theatricality and meta-theatricality 
• Philosophical and conceptual foundations of modern costume design. Oscillations between clothing and costume in contemporary theatre and film
• Public/outdoor space as performance space. Dialectics between site-specificity, memory, the realm of everyday and the performance event
• The devised visual space of scenography. Scenographic and contemporary exhibition design 
• Dynamics of performer-object interaction. Creating a performance based on the complex relationship between human and nonhuman agents
• The human face in theatre, film, performance and the visual arts.  

Research areas include the history and theory of design, co-creation, and design education.