Despoina holds a MSc in Process Systems Engineering from Imperial College London and a MEng from the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras. She works at Johnson & Johnson as a Production Detailed Scheduling Planner.

She deals with production planning optimisation issues in terms of total supply chain cost and customer order fulfillment while simultaneously targeting at minimum stock levels. She loves digging into real-life problems that need to be solved regardless of the industry. She has cross- sectional experience as a researcher, chemical engineer and market analyst.

She has worked at Dialectica as a knowledge broker and she has pursued an internship in Switzerland to study the volumetric and rheological behaviour of the dental implant. Before IChemE and her social media coordinator role, she was the Marketing Communications Associate at Imperial College Engineering Society.