1977 
Born in Athens, Greece
Undergraduate studies in Biology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Biology, Athens, Greece

2001-2006 
PhD studies in Molecular Biology at the BSRC Alexander Fleming and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece

2006-2007
 Postdoctoral fellow at the BSRC Alexander Fleming, Vari, Greece

2007-2013 Postdoctoral fellow at Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Since 2013
 Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany