She studied Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She completed her Postgraduate and Doctoral studies in Criminology, at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athensʼ Law school and worked as a researcher in the department of clinical psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the International non-governmental Organization “Defence for Children International-NL”.