Dr loanna Triantafyllou has a BSc in Geography (Harokopion University, Athens, 2013), an MSc in Applied Geoinformatics (University of the Aegean, 2016) focusing on tsunami risk assessment, an MSc (University of Athens, 2017) in Historical Geology focusing on the geological signatures of tsunamis, and a PhD on earthquake and tsunami impacts in Greece (University of Athens, 2021). loanna was a scientific associate with the National Observatory of Athens (2013–2019) and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2019–2024). From October 2023 to March 2024, she was a post-doc researcher with the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Japan, with a grant from the Matsumae Foundation. In her research she has been able to utilize methods of applied geoinformatics for the acquisition, processing, visualization and modelling of a variety of data useful for the assessment of geohazards, such as the ones related to earthquakes, tsunamis, and landslides. She has published several research papers on earthquake and tsunami topics in peer-reviewed journals and has presented oral and poster papers at international conferences.In April 2024, she was elected to the position of Scientific Officer for Earthquake Hazards, Natural Hazards Division, European Geosciences Union (EGU). Currently, she is an associate researcher with the Institute of Physics of the Earth’s Interior & Geohazards, Hellenic Mediterranean University Research Center, Crete, Greece.