Panagiota Fatourou is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Crete and the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH). She has worked as a visiting Professor at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, and as a visiting researcher at the University of York and the University of Toronto in Canada. She has been a Marie-Curie Individual Fellow at Université Paris Cité, and a postdoc at Max-Planck Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany, and at the Computer Science Department of the University of Toronto. Her research interests focus on parallel and distributed computing.

P. Fatourou has served as the chair of the ACM Europe Council (October 2019 – June 2021). Since July 2015, she is an elected member of the Council, currently serving as the Past Chair.  She has served as the editor of the Distributed Computing Column of the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, and as the General Chair of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing(PODC 2013). She has also served as a member-at-large of the steering committees of PODC and OPODIS. She has been the PC co-chair of the 20^th  International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2016), and of the 19th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2017). She has also been an ACM Distinguished Speaker and a Featured ACM Member.