Xanthi received her undergraduate diploma in Mathematics and her M.Sc. in Statistics and Operational Research from the Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece. She also received her PhD in Mathematical Finance from the Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. She is currently working for the EU project: “A Decision-Analytic Framework to explore the water-energy-food NExus in complex and transboundary water resources systems of fast growing developing countries (acronym: DAFNE)”.