Ergina Kavallieratou was born in Kefalonia, Greece, in 1973. She received her Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1996 from the Polytechnic School of the University of Patras and her PhD in Handwritten Optical Character Recognition and Document Image processing from the same department in 2000.

During the academic year 1997-1998 she was a member of the Signals, Systems and Radiocomunications Laboratory of the Dept. of Telecommunications Engineering of the Polytechnic School of Madrid, while in the years 2000 and 2001, she joined the Institute of Communication Acoustics of Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum (Germany), as guest researcher. During the years 2002-2004, she worked as Assistant Professor of Audio Processing in Dept. of Audio and Musical Instruments Technology in the Technological Educational Institute of Ionian Islands, Greece. She teaches in Greek Open University since 2001. Since September 2004, she is in the teaching staff in the department of Information and Communication System Engineering of the University of the Aegean.

Her research interests include Optical Character Recognition, Document Image Analysis, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.