She holds a PhD (11/2000) in Physical Chemistry from the Dept of Chemistry, NKUA. She worked at the PNNL/USA (7-9/1998); NKUA/Greece (2001-8/2006); University of Groningen/Netherlands (10-11/2004); INN/Demokritos/Greece (3/2013 -7/2014); TPCI/NHRF/Greece (9/2006-12/2012; 8/2014-); NKUA/Greece (9/2019- ).

She has been the recipient the Greek Award 2009 L'OREAL-UNESCO for the Women in Science. She is the author of 101 research articles in international scientific journals [1331 citations, h-index=19, i10-index=38 (google scholar)]. She is an active reviewer for more than 60 international journals, and for 8 European and national organizations. She has been a member of the Editorial Boards of 7 scientific journals. Her research work has been presented at Conferences or Universities (more than 90 presentations) and she has given talks at 12 general public conferences.

She has expertise in Computational Chemistry and Physics and in Theoretical Chemistry. Her research includes computational studies of molecules and molecular systems ranging from diatomics to nanomaterials and proteins. The studied systems have applications in astrophysics, catalysis, microelectronics, nanomaterials, magnetic materials, chemical sensors, optics, molecular logic gates, biological systems, and medicinal chemistry. She is married with five children.