A graduate of the Greek National School of Dance and holder of a degree from the Department of Primary Education of the University of Crete, she holds an MA in Dance Studies from the University of Surrey (UK), awarded with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation, as well as a PhD from the Department of Dance at the University of Roehampton (UK).

In 2015–16 she worked as Lecturer in Modern Greek Language at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Sciences humaines et sociales) of the University of Lille (formerly Lille 3). From 2018 to 2020, as an affiliated member of the research centre CECILLE (Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères) at the University of Lille, she carried out research within the thematic framework: “Espaces autres, partages sensibles, sociétés spectaculaires”.

She has taught at undergraduate level (NKUA, University of Patras) and postgraduate level (Hellenic Open University, Democritus University of Thrace), as well as at the Professional Dance School of the Greek National Opera and the Greek National School of Dance. She participates as principal researcher in the interdisciplinary and collaborative research project “Thymele”: A Dynamic Open-Access Multimedia Dictionary for the Performing Arts (HFRI, Implementing Institution: Department of Theatre Studies, University of the Peloponnese, Scientific Coordinator: Elena Papalexiou).

Her research, teaching, and writing focus primarily on the history of theatrical dance in Greece (20th–21st century), issues of archive and memory in dance, the conjunction of theory and practice, and contemporary artistic practices.

As a dance theorist, she served as Dance Curator of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival (2016–2019), invited co-curator of the Onassis Stegi Young Choreographers Festival (2021), and programming and research associate of the Kalamata International Dance Festival (1998–2015). She was a member of the Dance Evaluation Committee of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Support Programme ARTWORKS (2021), and Vice-President of the Dance Grants Committee of the Ministry of Culture (2022–2024).

In 2020–2021 she was awarded a Fellowship through the Visiting Artists Program of the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS Washington). She was also nominated for the British Council Study UK Alumni Awards (2024), in the category “Culture and Creativity”.

Her monograph Under the Shadow of the Parthenon: Dance at the Athens Festival during the Cold War (1955–1966), published by Kapa Publishing (2022), was shortlisted for the 2023 State Literary Awards in the essay category. As scholarly editor, she contributed to the publication of the first collection of translated texts on dance theory, entitled Bodies Present: An Introduction to Dance Theory (2024, University Studio Press), published with the financial support of the Ioannis F. Kostopoulos Foundation. Her writings have appeared in national and international academic journals, collective volumes, conference proceedings, and dictionaries.