Paraskevi Raftopoulou is a Research and Teaching Faculty Member at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of the Peloponnese and a member of the Software and Database Systems Laboratory (SoDa.Lab) since August 2008.

She received her BSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete in 2000, and her MSc degree in Computer Engineering (2003) and PhD degree in Information Management (2009) from the Technical University of Crete. During 2007–2008, she was a visiting researcher at the Databases and Information Systems Department of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII), under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Weikum.

Her research interests focus on distributed systems and large-scale data management, with extensions to data mining, data anonymization, social networks, databases, and digital libraries. In recent years, her work has also addressed applications in smart cities, intelligent transportation systems, and smart agriculture.

Dr. Raftopoulou has (co-)authored more than 35 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conferences and has participated in over 10 European and national research projects. She has served as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals and conferences and acts as an external evaluator of research proposals and funded projects for the European Commission.

She has extensive teaching experience and has independently taught undergraduate courses in her department, as well as courses in two postgraduate programs. She has supervised more than 20 undergraduate and postgraduate theses and has been awarded two national research scholarships.