Maria Sotiropoulou has a Master in Computer Science (2013) from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

She joined HCMR’s Operational Oceanography team in 2013 as a Software/Web developer. She has acquired extensive experience in oceanographic In-Situ data management including data curation, distribution and visualization. Her responsibilities include the development and implementation of Database, Web Interface and Online Tools for the data management of the observatories through the Mediterranean Operational Network for the Global Ocean Observing System (MonGOOS).

During her occupation at HCMR, she has been involved in many European and National funded projects in the fields of ICT (Big Data Ocean) and Operational Oceanography (Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service projects, ENVRI - FAIR, MyOcean - FO, EMSO - Greek, Greek Argo, IONIO, MyOcean-II, etc).