Born in Kos in 1982. In 2005 she graduated from the Department of Psychology of the University of Crete and in 2010 from the MSc Program in Clinical Psychology of the Psychology Department of the University of Athens. Since January 2012, she has been a PhD candidate of the Medical School of the University of Athens and has received a scholarship from the Foundation A.G. Leventis. She speaks English, German and Spanish.
Parallel to her clinical practice, since 2009, she has been a scientific partner of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens (Eginition Hospital), taking part in educational and research activities, and from September 2011 until December 2014 she was a consultant for external evaluation of the program "Promoting Mental Health in Children and Adolescents”, which was funded by the S. Niarchos Foundation. Since 2009, she has been a trainer at the Course in Clinical Psychopathology of the Eginition Hospital and participates in clinical and neuropsychological studies on bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anorexia nervosa at the Byron-Kessariani Community Mental Health Center and in the Eating Disorders Unit. She is particularly concerned with the study of cognitive functions in bipolar disorder, which is currently the subject of her PhD dissertation.
In 2010, she received special training at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) in London (Maudsley Hospital - King's College London) in Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CRT) in patients with schizophrenia and is now a key member of the pilot group for the implementation of this therapy at the Byron-Kessariani Community Mental Heatlh Center of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens. She has also been trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive-Analytical Psychotherapy.
Since January 2015, she has been a trainer in clinical courses of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association aimed at general practitioners and psychiatrists, on issues concerning the treatment and management of depression in primary healthcare and the identification and assessment of cognitive dysfunction in mental disorders.
She has presented studies at 15 international and Greek conferences and has made 7 publications in international scientific journals. Three of her papers have been awarded in international and Greek psychiatric conferences: at the 18th Congress of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), in Munich in 2010, at the 3rd Monothematic Conference of the Greek Psychiatric Association and the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH), in Athens in 2013, and at the 22nd Panhellenic Congress of Psychiatry, of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association, in Ioannina in 2014.