He received a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Electrical engineering in 1988, 1990 and 1993 respectively. His research interests include MRI guided therapeutic ultrasound and MRI compatible robotics. Between 1988 and 1993, during his master and doctoral studies for a degree in electrical engineering, he worked as a research assistant in the department of radiation oncology at the University of Arizona. Between 1993 and 1994 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of radiology at Harvard University in Massachusetts. Between 1994 and 1995 he worked as a research scientist in the department of biophysics at Indiana University. He is currently a professor at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) at the Electrical engineering, computer engineering and Informatics department. So far Dr. Damianou was involved in 45 research programs, having the coordination of 15 of them. The acronyms of the main programs that he participated are: ULTRASOUND Ι, ULTRASOUND II, SONOTHERM, SONOMRI, MRSONIC, SONOSTROKE, PROFUS, ULTRASTROKE, PROSTASONIC, ABLASONIC, FUSROBOT, ABLABREAST, and SOUNDPET.