Stella Chourdaki is a Lab technician in the Institute of Oceanography of the Hellenic Center for marine research. She holds a M.Sc in Environmental Engineering with specialization in water treatment (Technical University of Valencia, Spain-Technical University of Delft, Netherlands) and a B.Sc in Chemical Engineering (Technical University of Patras, Greece). 

Since 2015 she has been working in the laboratory of organic chemistry and her main research interests include the study of organic pollutants in the marine environment as well as the bioaccumulation of organic contaminants to aquatic organisms. She has participated in various scientific cruises and has contributed to several publications related to organic