Irini joined the VR Centre and Space Group at the Bartlett, UCL in December 2002 as Research Assistant before becoming Research Fellow in 2003. She has worked on EPSRC consortia VivaCity2020 and SOLUTIONS. In the VivaCity2020 project Irini was the main UCL Research Fellow involved in developing methods to bring together quantitative analysis of spatial structure of diverse and dense urban areas with qualitative data on individualsâ€™ experience of those areas as â€˜placesâ€™. Irini also joined Space Syntax in October 2006 as a Research Consultant.