Aikaterini studied Chemical Engineering in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. She graduated in 2016 receiving an Award of Excellencein Academic Performance. She then joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL to conduct her PhD research on the optimisation, control andconsideration of uncertainty for reactive distillation systems, in collaboration with Nouryon (Netherlands). She then continued her research as a Research Fellow in the department, focusing on the optimal design of chromatographic separation processes for pharmaceutical applications, in collaboration with Eli Lilly and Imperial College London. Since January 2022,she has joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL as a Lecturer(Teaching) and she is involved in various modules across the curriculum, with afocus on Computer-Aided Process Engineering. Aikaterini has also been awarded an Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) and has won thedepartmental DAI Best Postgraduate Teaching Assistant award in 2020 for her participation in several departmental teaching activities.