Mrs. Smaragdi Marinaki holds a degree in Medicine from the NKUA and is specialised in Nephrology. In 2002 she received a scholarship from the Hellenic Society of Nephrology to complete her post-training program in Germany (12/2002-12/2004), at the Universitaets- klinikum Mannheim, V. Medizinische Klinik: Nephrologie/ Rheumatologie/ Endrokrinologie under the direction of the Professor of Nephrology FJ van der Woude. In this department she served as a specialist of Nephrology, while she completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Heidelberg.

From 2006 to 2012 she served as a Junior Attending Physician and from 2012 to 2019 as a Senior Attending Physician at the Clinic of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation of General Hospital of Athens “Laiko”. In 09/2022 she was elected Director of the abovementioned Department.

From 19/3/2019 she was named Assistant Professor of Nephrology and since October 2022 Associate Professor of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation at the NKUA Medical School of Athens. 

From 2006 onwards, she has been a faculty member at the School of Medicine, NKUA. She has also been teaching Physiology courses at the Schools of Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing of NKUA.

Furthermore, she teaches in 13 different post-graduate programs. She is the supervisor of a total of 12 MsC diplomas and theses and 6 PhD theses. She is also the coordinator of the pregraduate elective course “Tissue, Cells and Organ Tranplantation”.

Regarding her research activitiy, she has a total of 97 publications,  with  a Hirsch-index of 17  and 962 citations (Scopus, status end 2023). 

Her scientific, educational and organizing activity is domestically and internationally acknowledged : she participates in committees of the Hellenic Transplant Organization and of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Health Care (EDQM). Finally, she has also participated in the writing of a total of 8 Greek and 4 english language academic textbooks.