Since July 2013, she has held the position of Director of the National Documentation Centre (EKT).

From 1997 to 2013 she was Deputy Director and Head of the Strategic Planning and Development Department of EKT.

From 1991 to 1997 she was the Technical Director of the Clothing and Fiber Technological Development Company (ETAKEI SA).

During her tenure at EKT, she has played a key role in the development and operation of infrastructures and services for the documentation, aggregation and digital dissemination of scientific knowledge and cultural content produced in Greece.

She has contributed to the improvement of academic communication through actions and e-publishing services, to the development of digital indexes for Social Sciences and the Humanities, to the establishment of a comprehensive systematic system for collecting and measuring the indicators of the Hellenic System of Research, Development, Innovation (through RDI) and the linking of research with entrepreneurship through the exploitation of research results.

She has the scientific responsibility for the development and research projects implemented by the organisation, undertaking the planning, co-ordination of implementation and integration of their results into the national infrastructure developed and operated by EKT.

In her position as scientific director, she has successfully completed more than 150 development and research projects with a total budget of about 100 million euros. As part of these projects, 80 new highly qualified scientific staff positions were created. This staff comprise working groups with know-how at the technological, scientific and operational levels at EKT. 

At the same time, the implementation of these projects provided the opportunity to employ hundreds of scientists who were practically trained in a highly advanced technological and business environment, enabling them to gain the tools needed for a good career in Greece and abroad.

She has sought the development of strategic collaborations with reputable national and international bodies that are part of EKT's operating environment and shape the ecosystem of production and dissemination of knowledge with very positive results.

She has repeatedly been a national representative and expert in thematic areas and programmes of the EU Framework Programmes. She represented the country at the Intergovernmental Meeting organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Daejeon, South Korea, on 'Creating our Common Future through Science, Technology and Innovation'.

She participated in the Ministerial Conference organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 'Strengthening SMEs and entrepreneurship for productivity and inclusive growth' in Mexico.

She participated as a co-ordinator for the 'Digital School' sector in the national dialogue on education. She also participates in scientific publications and conference presentations on EKT issues. As director she represents EKT in its public obligations.

With a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and studies in Economics (Department of Economics), she has worked in public interest bodies that have a profound business and development orientation.

She has specialised and distinguished herself in the field of scientific information, metrics and evaluation indicators for research, development and innovation activity, digital libraries and major infrastructure.

From the very beginning of her career, she has systematically followed European policies in her fields of activity, participating in the work of international organisations that were responsible for shaping them.

In addition, she participated in Greek and international fora on the dissemination and exploitation of research results, Open Access, digital libraries, digital infrastructure and knowledge management, the use of big data to support policy implementation etc.

In these positions of responsibility, she undertook initiatives using state-of-the-art technological and operational structures for the aggregation, documentation, dissemination and preservation of digital content. These infrastructures are used not only to meet the needs of the scientific community, but also as capital in strengthening the economy and social welfare.

Her administrative capabilities have developed in the area of strategic planning and targeting business, with a focus on leveraging and establishing efficient working relationships, creating a secure working environment with clear objectives, recognising opportunities and seeking funding for development.

Adopting a holistic approach to strategic targeting and focusing on ensuring the public interest, she takes advantage of her experience and knowledge to achieve the goals of the organisation she directs, investing in attracting high-level personnel and collaborations with other organisations.

Her experience in formulating and evaluating policy pillars in research and technology has enabled her to discern EKT's institutional relevance and operational maturity to undertake the production of official statistics on Research, Technological Development and Innovation in the country.

Her contribution to this action, which makes the best possible use of the operational and scientific know-how of the organisation, has been decisive, substantially strengthening the role of EKT in recent years.

Her long-term activity in knowledge-intensive fields, in which the development of collaborative relationships and highly demanding teamwork are necessary conditions for successful development, have strongly instilled in her the value of trust in human resources and faith in the strength of solid human relationships.

Her firm conviction is that the sustainable development of an organisation, network or sector can become a reality only if the use of the most advanced technological infrastructure coexists harmoniously with the investment in human capital..

Scientific Publications

• Sachini E, Karampekios N, Chrysomallidis C, Siganos G, Sioumalas-Christodoulou K. (2020).”Greek chemical engineers. Are they static or mobile? Evidence from the National Archive of PhD Theses”. Collection and Curation. https://doi.org/10.1108/CC-06-2020-0017
• Sachini E, Sioumalas-Christodoulou K, Chrysomallidis C, Karampekios N. (2020).” Identifying the intellectual capital of Greek defence firms. Science outputs and industrial considerations”. Defense and Peace Economics. https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2020.1849972
• Sachini E, Karampekios N, Brutti P, Sioumalas-Christodoulou K. (2020). ”Should I stay or should I go? Using bibliometrics to identify the international mobility of highly educated Greek manpower”. Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03618-y 
• Sachini, E., Malliou, N. Maniadakis, N. Megas G. Varvara, V. Angelidis, A., Karampekios, N. (2020) The Greek National Documentation Centre - Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Hélice, vol. 9(2), The Triple Helix Association Magazine. https://www.triplehelixassociation.org/download/helice-volume-9-issue-2-june-2020
• Sachini, E. Chrysomallidis, C. Karampekios, N., (2020) Introducing Human Capital in Greek Higher Education Institutes in the Postcrisis Era. The Case of the “Acquisition of Academic Teaching Experience for New Scientists” Public Initiative. Journal of Knowledge Economy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-020-00630-8
• Vasilogamvrakis, N., Bartzi, K., & Lagoudi, E. (2019, January). The Digital Repository Service of the National Documentation Centre in Greece: a model for Digital Humanities data management and representation. Paper presented in AIUCD 2019 Conference, Udine. Available at: https://bit.ly/2S1Z0hl
• Labrianidis L. Sachini E. Karampekios N. (2019) Establishing a Greek Diaspora Knowledge Network through “Knowledge and Partnership Bridges". Science and Diplomacy, vol. 8(1), American Association for the Advancement of Science. http://www.sciencediplomacy.org/article/2019/establishing-greek-diaspora knowledge-network-through-knowledge-and-partnership-bridges
• Sachini, E., Chryssomallidis, C.,  & Karampekios, N. (2019, September - October). Examining aspects of academia - Business knowledge intensive synergies in Greece. Data and trends. Paper presented at The European Triple Helix Congress (ETHAC2019), Thessaloniki. 
• Georgiadis H., Papanoti A., Paschou M., Roubani A., Chardouveli D., Sachini E., Using type and temporal semantic enrichment to boost content discoverability and multilingualism in the Greek cultural aggregator SearchCulture.gr, Int. J. Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 75–92.(Preprint available here)      
• Georgiadis H., Papanoti A., Paschou M., Roubani A., Chardouveli D., Sachini E., The semantic enrichment strategy for types, chronologies and historical periods in SearchCulture.gr. MTSR 2017
• Georgiadis H., Papanoti A., Paschou M., Roubani A., Chardouveli D., Sachini E., Pelekanou D., Semantics.gr: A self-improving service to repositories and aggregators for massively enriching their content. DHC@MTSR 2016
• Georgiadis H., Banos V., Stathopoulou O., Stathopoulos P., Houssos N., Sachini E., Ensuring the quality and interoperability of open cultural digital content: System architecture and scalability. IISA 2014: 178-183, Chania 2014
• Stathopoulou O., Stathopoulos P., Georgiadis H., Houssos N., Banos V., Sachini E., An Open Cultural Digital Content Infrastructure. JCDL 2014: 285-288
• Houssos N., Stathopoulos P., Stathopoulou O., Banos V., Georgiadis H., Sachini E., Interoperability specifications and an automatic validation tool as a key factor for the support of a repository ecosystem. OR'2014, Helsinki, 2014
• Nafpliotis A., Tsoukala V., Houssos N., Kalaitzis A., Sachini E., EKT ePublishing: Developing an Open Access publishing service for the Greek research community, Conference: Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (Ebook), January 2014
• Tsoukala V., Panagopoulou A., Stavrou G., Angelidi E., Nafpliotis A., Sachini E., Developing the Greek Reference Index for the Social Sciences and Humanities, Article in Information services & use, 34(3):59-67, January 2014
• Nafpliotis A., Tsoukala V., Houssos N., Kalaitzidis A., Sachini E., EKT ePublishing: Developing an Open Access Publishing Service for the Greek Research Community,Conference Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing:Let’s Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation, (pp.112), 2014
• Nafpliotis A., Tsoukala V., Sachini E., Enabling change in scholarly publishing in HSS in Greece: The case-study of ePublishing at EKT, Conference: The 8th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing 2013-Entering the Next Stage, January 2013
• Houssos N., Stathopoulos P., Sarantopoulou I., Sachini E., A service-oriented national e-theses information system and repository, Article, July 2010

ΕΚΤ's Scientific Publications

• Sachini, E. Malliou, N. Karampekios, Ν. ΕΚΤ (2018), Business demography in the high-technology sector in Greece. Analysis of births and deaths over the period 2011 to 2016, Athens: National Documentation Centre (https://metrics.ekt.gr/en/publications/129)
• Sachini, E. Malliou, N. Karampekios, Ν. Ieromnimon, T. Chrisomallidis, Ch. ΕΚΤ (2016), Business demography in the high-technology sector in Greece. Analysis of births and deaths over the period 2011 to 2015, Athens: National Documentation Centre (https://metrics.ekt.gr/en/publications/100)
• Sachini, E. Malliou, N. Karampekios, N. Karaiskos, D. (2015) Greek Scientific Publications 1998-2012: A Bibliometric Analysis of Greek Publications in International Scientific Journals - Web of Science, National Documentation Centre (http://metrics.ekt.gr/en/node/320)
• Sachini E., Malliou N., Karampekios N. Karaiskos D, (2015), Greek Scientific Publications 1998-2012: A Bibliometric Analysis of Greek Publications in International Scientific Journals – Scopus, National Documentation Centre (https://metrics.ekt.gr/en/publications/103)

For more publications available in Greek visit the: https://evisachini.ekt.gr/el/bio