Dionysia joined the University of Stirling in August 2009. She holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Edinburgh Business School (November 2010), an MSc in Finance from the University of Cyprus (June 2005) and a BSc (Hons) degree in Business Administration with minor in Accounting and Finance from the Athens University of Economics and Business (September 2003). Before joining the division, she was an INTACCT Early Stage Researcher, based at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ljubljana. Past academic positions held include a post as tutor in finance at the University of Edinburgh Business School, tutor in finance at Heriot-Watt University and teaching assistant at the University of Cyprus.

Dionysia is mainly working in three research areas: Empirical corporate finance including seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) and capital structure, abnormal performance and long-run event studies/asset pricing models. Corporate distress including bankruptcy prediction and strategies to avoid default. Market based accounting including cost-of-equity, financial statement comparability, disclosures, earnings management and operating abnormal performance.