She has a B.S. in civil engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. Prior to joining the CEE faculty at Georgia Tech in 2005, she worked as a postdoc for the European Research Program SAFERR in Paris, France, and for the Institute for Crustal Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the numerical simulation of soil response to seismic loading, soil-structure interaction, and inverse problems in near-surface geophysics, and is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). She is the recipient of the 2008 Bill Schutz Junior Faculty Teaching Award for Excellence from Georgia Tech and the 2009 Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award from the ASCE Geoinstitute.