She was educated in Greece and the United Kingdom and received her Ph.D. from King’s College, London in 2004. She was a junior fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Center (Fall 2003) and most recently a recipient of a grant from the Onassis Foundation for a Byzantine Studies Colloquium entitled "Niketas Choniates. A Byzantine Historian and Writer" that she organized (with Stephanos Efthymiades) at Koç University in May 2007. Her latest article is "Before and After 1204: The Versions of Niketas Choniates’ Historia" in DOP 60 (2006). Her book-in-progress builds upon her doctoral research and aims to provide a new reading and interpretation of the Historia of Niketas Choniates. [Last Updated 2008]