an Associate Professor at the Physics Department for the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and in June 2025 was elected Full Professor (pending appointment by the Greek ministry) at the same University. Previously she was an Associate Professor at the Athens Information Technology (AIT), Greece where she was leading the Network Design and Services (NDS) research group. She has been also an adjunct faculty ember of the Information Networking Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She has obtained a BSc degree from the University of Crete, Greece, an MSc and a PhD both from the University of Essex, UK. She was a Senior Research Officer and also a visiting lecturer at the department of Electronics Systems Engineering at the University of Essex. She was a co founder of ilotron ltd, a high-technology spin-off from the University of Essex.