She was born in Patras in 1969. She studied History and Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a Master’s degree in Landscape Studies from Leicester University, UK and a Ph’d in Classical Archaeology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as well as a Post doc research from the same University.  In 2022 she was awarded a MSc degree in Sustainable Tourism Development: Heritage, Environment, Society (Harokopio University of Athens, University of the Aegean and Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne).  Since 1993, she has been working at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, first as a Curator of the Division of Antiquities in Achaia and Boeotia, and later (2004-2014) as a curator of Antiquities at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. From 2014 to 2023 she has been  working as Head of the Department of Prehistoric and Classical Archaeological Sites, Monuments and Archaeological Works, of the Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, a department responsible for the protection and enhancement of archaeological sites and monuments all over Greece.

She has published two books (Achaia in Early Historical Era. Ceramic Production and Burial Customs. Athens 2008 and  Thapsos class pottery reconsidered. Workshop or pottery style? The case of Achaia in the northern Peloponnese. BAR IS 2279, 2011), two edited volumes in topics and pottery of the Early Iron Age, a number of articles in Greek and international Archaeological Journals and Conference Proceedings. She has conducted, and participated in excavations and surveys in Greece, co-organized archaeological conferences, and has curated permanent and temporary exhibitions in museums, both in Greece and abroad. Since 2005 she has been co-directing the systematic excavation of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports in the Sanctuary Site of Poseidon Heliconius dated from the 9th  to the 6th c. BC., in Ancient Helike, Achaia.

Her main research interest lays in Early Iron Age Achaia, in northern Peloponnese. Sanctuary and funerary landscapes and pottery production. She has delivered lectures in Universities in Great Britain (Oxford, Cardiff), France (Aix en Provence, Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne) and Italy (Naples, Rome, Messina).