Dr Dimitra Apostolopoulou is a Research Fellow of the Electricity Research programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) and a Lecturer at Christ Church College, University of Oxford. Before joining OIES, Dimitra was a Lecturer at the Department of Engineering at City, University of London. In this role, she contributed significantly to both academic instruction and research activities. 

Prior to her tenure at City, Dr Apostolopoulou was an Oxford Martin Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her diverse experience extends to the industry as well; she previously worked at the Smart Grid & Technology Department at Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) in Chicago, Illinois—a unit of Exelon Corp. that serves approximately 3.8 million customers.

Dr Apostolopoulou earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2014 and 2011 respectively. Her research interests lie at the intersection of power and energy systems, economics, and energy policy.