Stamatia Papoutsopoulou received her B.Sc. from the Department of Biology and her Ph.D. from the Department of Biochemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She did a post-doc at Mayo Clinic/Rochester/MN/USA and then moved to the U.K., where she worked as a senior investigator scientist at NIMR (The Crick Institute), London.  She then relocated to the northern U.K. and worked at the University of Manchester and the University of Liverpool until 2021. Since September 2021, she has been an assistant professor in molecular immunology at the Department of Biochemistry & Biotechnology, University of Thessaly in Greece. Her research focuses on signaling pathways and transcriptional regulation of innate immune responses in chronic inflammatory diseases, such as IBD and Parkinson's disease. This involves studies on the NF-kappa B transcription factor pathway in macrophages and intestinal epithelial cells. She has experience in using high-throughput approaches, such as RNA-, ChIp-, and ATAC-sequencing, as well as the study of the epigenetic modifications induced by environmental factors on gene expression and correlations with diseases.