Korina Hatzinikolaou holds the position of Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Faculty of Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From September 2017 to July 2019, she held the position of Scientific Adviser at the Office of the Greek National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Currently, she collaborates with several organization on delivering child protection training to professionals working with children at various contexts, and with the University of Nottingham on a research project on mental health services for unaccompanied minors potential victims of exploitation. Previously, she collaborated with UNICEF on the Evaluation of UNICEF’s 2016-2019 response to migrant and refugee children in Greece, and she coordinated the Estia Prosfygon (Refugees’ Home), a shelter for refugee families run by NGO ARSIS. She has coordinated international research and action-research projects on the prevention of human trafficking, protection of unaccompanied minors from exploitation, development of guidelines to identify victims of human trafficking, and child protection. She collaborates with European Agencies and International Organizations (e.g. UNODC, OSCE, UNHCR, UNICEF) as expert, trainer and project evaluator