Evangelia Sarantopoulou is a Senior Researcher at Photonics for Nano Applications Laboratory, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, Athens, Greece. She graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and she defended her Ph.D. thesis at the same University in 1996. She is the author or co-author of 117 peer-reviewed articles, and she participated in more than 130 international conferences. She supervised several Ph.D., M.Sc, and Diploma thesis and participated in various national and international research projects. She was a scientist in charge of European Space Agency projects, European Projects, and bilateral research projects, and also she is serving as an expert in the European Commission. She was a visiting professor of Physics at Kazan Federal University, Russian Federation.
Her current research interests include complexity issues in physics, and physical properties of materials at the nanoscale, photonic surface engineering, physics of interphases, electronic properties of nanocomposites, nanotoxicology, biophotonics, and space sciences, including cancer research and nanomedicine.