Maria holds a degree in political science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and earned her MLitt in International Political Theory from the University of St Andrews in 2014. Following this, she worked as a researcher in the NGO sector in Greece. Maria obtained her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Exeter in 2021 and served as a postdoctoral research associate on a Horizon2020 funded project on European integration titled "Differentiation: clustering excellence - DiCE." In 2022, she joined Loughborough University as a University Teacher in Politics and International Relations.
Maria is a moral and political philosopher. Her PhD was titled “Inequality and Discrimination in Biomedical Enhancement” and her research is primarily concentrated on disability and how it relates to notions of human enhancement and animality. Maria is interested in broader issues within feminist bioethics, animal ethics as well as epistemic and distributive justice.
Maria teaches on the following modules:
- Dissertation
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Conceptions of Democracy
- International Conflict Management
- Research Methods