Natalia has studied archaeology in the University of Athens and received her Ph.D. from the Université Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne. She is the director of the excavations of the University of Thessaloniki in Philippi and in Mochlos (Crete). She is the president of the administrative board of the European Centre for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments. Her research focuses on maritime routes and communication in the Aegean, byzantine architecture, pottery and material culture of early and middle byzantine period.