Maria Taramigkou graduated in 2008 from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). Her Diploma Thesis was in the area of Communications, Electronics and Computer Systems. She holds a Degree of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University and Grundstufe in German. During 2008-2012 she worked as a software engineer on several projects of major Greek banks and their international subsidiaries and also as an application consultant for a platform addressed to financial institutions for the management of their delinquent portfolio. She is currently a research engineer at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department (NTUA). Her current research interests include recommender systems and technology-enhanced learning