Malliarou Maria is an Associate Professor in Nursing Department of Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly. She is teaching in Postgraduate programme of Primary Health Care and Mental Health of TEI of Thessaly. She has extensive experience in Open and Distance Learning as she has been a Tutor in Postgraduate Programme of Management of health services and has supervised many diploma theses in Hellenic Open University.

She graduated from Military Nursing Academy in 1996 and received her specialty in Mental Health Nursing in 2002. She completed her postgraduate studies in the subject of Health Informatics at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens as well as in the subject of Management of health services at Open University of Cyprus. She holds her PhD from Nursing Department of National Kapodistrian University of Athens. 

During her professional career in the clinical settings she has been involved in both Clinical Nursing and Occupational Health and Safety in the work environment as well as Human Resource Management. She has an important research in the field of Nursing, Quality in Care, and Occupational Health. She has also measurably contributed to nursing literature through authoring and co-authoring publications and entries in national and international journals. She is a member of scientific committees of foreign and Greek journals. The results of her research activity have been published in Greek and international journals and conference proceedings.