Dr Katerina Tzafilkou is an adjunct lecturer at the School of Science and Technology at the International University of Greece, and an adjunct academic associate at Hellenic Open University at Educational Sciences Postgraduate Programme in Education and Technologies in distance learning and learning systems. Currently, she also is a postdoctoral researcher in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and Emotion Recognition at University of Macedonia (GR). She has received a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) for her postdoctoral research. 

She holds a Ph.D in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, a M.Sc. degree in Information Systems, and a B.Sc. in International and European Studies from the University of Macedonia (GR).

She has working experience in several research projects and she has published several research studies in peer-reviewed high impact international journals.