Practice areas: Civil law; Law of Torts; Comparative Civil Law; Family Law; Εuropean Family Law and European Convention of Human Rights; Property Law; Professional Liability (specialized in Medical Liability/ malpractice); Bioethics; Biomedicine; Medically assisted procreation;

Education: University of Thessaloniki (Law Degree, 1991); University of Thessaloniki (LL.M. in Civil Law, 1992); University of Thessaloniki (Ph.D. in Civil Law, 1993).

Description of professional experience: Attorney at the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos) Thessaloniki Bar; Counselling in Famlily Law matters; Medical Malpractice cases; Counselling of Medically assisted procreation clinics;

Scientific assistant in the Committee for the reform of the Greek Civil Code family law (1994-1996;  Law 2447/1996); (2004-2008) Council of Europe Working Party of experts on Adoption (CJ-FA-GT 1), assigned with the preparation of the new European Convention on Adoption of Children (open for signature: 2008); (2002) Ministry of Justice Working Party for the study of the impact of Biotechnology on Civil Law and the preparation of a new legislation on relating matters (law 3089/2002 “medically assisted procreation”); Ministry of Justice Working Party for the reform of Family Law (2010); (2013-2014) Appointed Chairperson of the Council of the E.U. Working Party on Civil Law Matters (Matrimonial and Registered Partnerships’ Property Regimes), during the greek presidency of the E.U.; Ministry of Justice Working Party for the reform of Family Law Ministry of Justice Working Party for the reform of Family Law; Legal Committee of A.U.Th. (2014); (2015) Ministry of Justice Working Party for the reform of registered partnership for different and same sex couples (law 4356/2015); (2019) Ministry of Justice Working Party for the legal recognition of gender identity (law 4491/2017); (2020) Ministry of Justice Working Party for the reform of Family Law (parental responsibility, law 4800/2021)

Academic Career: 1998 Lecturer of Civil Law; 2003 Assistant Professor; 2008 Associate Professor. Since 1.2013 full Professor of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she teaches in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes General Principles of Civil Law, Transactions Law, Property Law, Law of Torts, Special Issues of Liability Law, Breach of Contracts, Medical Law, Law of Medically assisted procreation.

Vice Dean of the Faculty since 8.2021.

Author: of the following books: “Illegal Adoption” (in Greek), Thessaloniki, 1993; “Adoption. Conditions, Procedure, Nullification” (in Greek), Thessaloniki, 1998; “Medical civil liability. General Introduction, Dogmatic and Political Approach, Essential Notions” (in Greek), Thessaloniki, 2003; exp. 2^nd fully revised and updated edition in 2023; “The parental responsibility cases in Regulation 2201/2003” (in Greek), Thessaloniki, 2004; “Adoption. Law 2447/1996, its reforms and application” (in Greek), Thessaloniki, 2010; “Human Reproduction and Medical Civil Liability” (in Greek), Thessaloniki, 2007; “Person and Personality in the Civil Code” (in Greek), Thessaloniki, 2012; “Lessons of Medical Liability”, Athens 2018; The new legislation on the relations between parents and children (2021). -of 6 extended participations in collective works. -of more than 110 articles/ studies/ expert opinions/ notes on court decisions. She has more than 120 presentations in colloquies, conferences and seminars (Greek and International, legal, medical and interdisciplinary).

Member of: Special Supreme Court (2020-2022) ; Council of Evaluation and Accreditation for Law and Political Sciences of the Hellenic Authority for Higher Education; former Vice President of the National Authority of Medically Assisted Procreation; Member of Prime Minister Committee for the elaboration of a National Plan for the rights of LGBTQ+ people; Co- founder and elected Director of the A.U.Th. Laboratory for the Research of Medical Law and Bioethics;  Secretary general of the Hellenic Family Law Society; Secretary general of the Board of the Association of Greek Civilists; President of the Association of Medical Law and Bioethics ; Former member of the Legal Committee of A.U.Th.

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Greek.