Athena Vakali is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She received her Bachelor degree in Mathematics from Aristotle University, a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Purdue University, USA and a PhD in Informatics from Aristotle University.

She is the head of the Operating Systems Web/Internet Data Storage and management research group at the Department of Informatics (Aristotle University). Her research activities focus on topics of Web information systems such as Web data management (with emphasis on clustering techniques), content delivery on the Web, Web data clustering, Web caching, and social Web 2.0 data sources management.

Her publication record is now at more than 100 research publications which have appeared in several journals, book chapters and in scientific conferences and she is co-editor of the book "Web Data ManagementPractices: Emerging Techniques and Technologies" published by Idea Group Publishing and the book “Content Delivery Networks” published by Springer.

She is a member of the editorial board of the Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal (Elsevier), since March 2007, she is the coordinator of the IEEE TCSC technical area of Content Management and Delivery Networks and she has scientifically leaded more than 15 European and national research projects.