Nikoleta studied physics at the University of Ioannina, Greece, graduating in 2008. In 2015 she obtained her PhD from the University of Ioannina where she investigated ionization/dissociation of small gas phase molecules with shaped intense laser pulses. In 2016 she joined the group of Prof. Dave Townsend at Heriot Watt University as a research associate, where she studied the non-adiabatic dynamics of small gas phase molecules initiated by Ultraviolet/Vacuum Ultraviolet (UV/VUV) excitation, employing time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopic experiments. She worked with various non-linear sources including non-linear crystals, four-wave mixing techniques in gas targets and, more recently, soliton driven tuneable UV generation in hollow-core photonic crystal fibres and hollow capillary fibres. Nikoleta joined the group in January 2022 and she is working on the extreme-soliton dynamics project.