Maria Strotou was born in Amfiklia, Phthiotis in 1993, holds a graduated diploma from the School of Economics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh 2015) and in 2017 she acquired the MSc on Complex Systems and Networks of Department of Mathematics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh).

Her research interests include statistical data analysis, big data technologies, working programmatically by using data visualization tools.

Since November 2019, she works as a Research Associate at the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). Her main responsibilities are the use of data visualization tools to support the development and the operation of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) and Services.