Dr. Gkouti is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at Western University. Dr. Gkouti holds an Engineering Diploma and MASc. in Applied Mechanics from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). Building a background in solid mechanics, Dr. Gkouti earned her PhD from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). Her doctoral research focused on analyzing elastic interactions between phase transformations and inhomogeneities within composite materials.

Before she joined Western University, Dr. Gkouti worked as a Research Associate and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering Department at York University (Canada) since 2019. Her research focused on the experimental characterization and computational analysis of soft material behaviour, with special emphasis on elastomers.