She earned her Ph.D thesis in 1998 from the Chemistry Department of the University of Crete, Greece. In January 1999, she had a post-Doctoral appointment with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In 2001, she earned a 2-year postdoctoral E.U. fellowship to work in the Laboratoire de Biogeochimie et Chimie Marines in University Paris VI, France. Between 2003 and 2005 she was an Associated Scientist in the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece. Her research activities are focused on deciphering marine biogeochemical processes in response to environmental and climatic conditions, as they are recorded in the chemical structure, abundance and isotopic composition of organic molecules. She has been involved in several European, U.S.A. and International research projects.