She has taught and researched in various universities in Greece and UK and has been a practicing town planner for the past 20 years in Greece; she has also coordinated a large number of transnational projects in Europe, dealing with such topics as public participation in planning, tourism in the context of environmental planning, regional planning and rural development. She is the co-founder and managing director of PRISMA- Centre for Development Studies and has also been a founding member and a member of the Board (president and vice-president) of the EuropeanAcademy for Sustainable Rural Development.