Maria Spiliotopoulou is Director of Research of the Modern Greek History Research Centre of the Academy of Athens.
BA History and Archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens (1983). Postgraduate studies at Paris I-Sorbonne University (1991). PhD in History at the University of Crete (2005) with a study on family strategies in the island of Santorini under Ottoman rule (17th-early 19th centuries). Historian of the early modern and contemporary Greece, focuses on social and economic history, as well on political history and is currently mostly engaged in projects regarding World War II in the Eastern Mediterranean.