She received her graduate degree from the Department of Balkan Studies of the University of Western Macedonia (Florina). She has two master degrees, the first one in Political Science from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Strasbourg (Université Robert Schuman) and another one in History and Social Anthropology from the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the Aegean University (Mytilene). She obtained a Ph.D. in Economic and Political Studies in Contemporary Eastern and Southeastern Europe from the BSES Department of the University of Macedonia (2011). During the last years, she has been teaching in the University of Macedonia.