Rodopi Stamatiou is a basic science researcher with specialization in vascular inflammation and arrhythmiogenesis. She has been working in the Physiology Laboratory in the Medical Department, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly in cell culture based molecular biology protocols and in vivo experimental procedures regarding prevention and elucidation of arrhythmias using pericardial and epicardial MAP recording. She is a member of the WG on Atherosclerosis & Vascular Biology, the WG on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy and a member of the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science.