Stavroula Makri holds a University Diploma in Biology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MSc in the Application of Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Diagnostic Biomarkers from the University of Thessaly. Her postgraduate thesis focused on bioinformatics, specifically predicting protein methylation sites using machine learning methods. She completed her research training in Computational RNA Biology at the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences in Frankfurt, Germany, where she honed her expertise in molecular and computational biology. Since July 2023, she has been working as a Bioinformatician in the Laboratory of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, at the University of Thessaly, under the supervision of Dr. Dimitrios Karpouzas.