Eirini I. Rigopoulou serves as Professor of Medicine at the University of Thessaly and practices Medicine at the Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, National Expertise Center of Greece in Autoimmune Liver Diseases, Full Member of the European Reference Network on Hepatological Diseases (ERN RARE-LIVER) at the General University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece.
She graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where she also completed her PhD. She was trained in Internal Medicine (Athens) and later in Hepatology at the University of Cambridge and University College London (Institute of Hepatology) in the UK (1998-2001).
Her research interests and key publications focus on chronic viral hepatitis and autoimmune liver diseases. She has co-authored 135 publications in peer reviewed journals and chapters in books with >4500 citations (scopus h-index: 39) and has been editor and reviewer for international scientific journals and reviewer for grant agencies. Currently she is a member of the Governing board of the Hellenic Association for the Study of the Liver.