Dr. Meropi Mpouzika is an Assistant Professor in critical care nursing at the Department of Nursing at the Cyprus University of Technology. She is the head of the Master in Advanced Emergency and Intensive Nursing Care, and she teaches at postgraduate and undergraduate level. She has over 15 years of clinical experience in a number of intensive care units in Greece. Her main research interests revolve around nursing management of critically ill patients, particularly the effects of stress and pain experienced while hospitalized in intensive care. Biological research (including laboratory research) is another field of interest, and she studies how stress can contribute to the onset of multiple organ dysfunction and apoptosis in critical illness. Within this context, she studies the impact of the critical care environment on both patients and nurses. In 2018, she became the national coordinator for Cyprus for two multicenter international studies entitled DecubICUs Pressure Ulcers in Intensive Care Units and Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in ICU Patients. Her future research plans include the exploration of morbidity and mortality of post-intensive care syndrome among survivors of critical illness as well as the effectiveness of nurse-led educational programs. She has authored and coauthored a significant number of peer-reviewed scientific papers and has presented her research work at national and international conferences.