Loukia Kostopoulou is an Assistant Professor of Translation, Intercultural Communication and Intermedial Studies at the School of French, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and coordinator of the Media Semiotics Research Group (at AUTh SemioLab). She has been a Visiting Scholar to several academic institutions, among which Universitat Jaume Ι, Reggio Emilia University, the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts at Cyprus University of Technology, and New Bulgarian University. She has published a monograph (Routledge, 2023), several edited volumes (Routledge, Palgrave), book chapters and journal articles in areas revolving around intercultural communication, translation and intermedial studies. She is also the guest editor of two special journal issues in intermedial crossovers across audiovisual and interactive media (Syn-Thèses and Punctum). She has been involved in several research networks, research projects of the Greek Ministry of Education and European projects such as DIALOGOS.