Sofia Kotzabassi studied byzantine and modern Greek philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (B.A. 1983, M.A. 1985), classics and byzantine phillology at the Freie Universität Berlin (Dr. Phil. 1988). In October 1989 she joined the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Philology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She taught as Visiting Professor at the University of Bochum and the Freie Universität Berlin (1994-1995).