She received her PhD from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2009). Her research interests include: context-awareness, service-oriented computing, open source software and privacy protection. She has published over 25 papers in international conferences and journals with the majority of them focusing on web technologies and has served as a TPC member and referee in repudiated journals and conferences. She has been involved in EU FP6 and FP7 projects and has worked as a software engineer in the industry. She is also currently contributing to open source projects and is involved in the supervision of student software projects in collaboration with the industry and local organisations.