I graduated from the University of Crete, Department of Philology, in 1999. I obtained my Masters in 2000 and the Phd Degree in 2005 from the University of Birmingham (UK), under the supervision of Professor Andrew Barker.

My research interests lie in the interface of ancient Greek culture, literature, and philosophy, metaphor issues and analysis, and philosophy of language. In my published works I focus on the construction and systematization of philosophical thought and language in the 5th and 4th century B.C. In my monograph The Poetics of Philosophical language: Plato, poets and Presocratics in the Republic (De Gruyter: Sozomena, 2011) I examined the influence of poetic speech on Plato's formulation of philosophical discourse. My second book Sculpture, Weaving and the Body in Plato (De Gruyter: MEP, 2023) examines Plato’s conceptual dialogue with the material culture of his era in the middle and late dialogues. The book positions the interface of philosophy and art within the wider framework of visual culture. It examines how Plato uses the arts of sculpture and weaving to evaluate the referential capacity of language in providing 'shape' and 'substance' to intangible philosophical concepts. It also illustrates how Plato utilizes the intellectual and cultural transformations in ancient image-making throughout the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC to formulate a favorable notion of philosophical mimesis.

My research has been funded by the British Academy (AHRC), European Research Institutes (Foundation Hardt, Genève), the University of Cambridge (Jesus College), and the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University.