Sonia Malefaki was born in Athens in 1977. In 1999, she graduated from the Mathematics Department of the University of Patras with a degree in Statistics, Probability, and Operational Research. In 2001, she graduated first (grade: 9.13) from the interdepartmental postgraduate program “Mathematics of Computers and Decisions” with a specialization in “Statistics, Decision Theory, and Applications.” In 2008, she completed her doctoral thesis at the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science of the University of Piraeus (doctoral thesis title: “Simulated weighted samples as jump processes: A Different Perspective,” supervisor: G. Iliopoulos). From 2008 to 2010, she worked as a researcher at the Universite de Technologie de Compiegne in France. In 2010, she was elected Lecturer in the General Department of the University of Patras. In September 2013, she joined the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Patras as a lecturer following the abolition of the General Department, and in March 2016, she was elected assistant professor in the same department. Since September 2023, she has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Patras.
Her research interests focus mainly on descriptive and computational statistics and simulation methods, Monte Carlo methods, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. She also conducts research on Bayesian Statistics, Markovian and Semimarkovian processes, hidden Markovian/semimarkovian models, and reliability. He is the author (http://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=vrjsrPIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao) of 37 articles in international scientific journals and more than 15 articles in the proceedings of international scientific conferences with reviewers. He is a reviewer for more than 17 international scientific journals. He is co-author of two academic books (KALLIPOS Open Academic Publications). He is a member of the Hellenic Statistical Institute (ESI) and an elected member of the ESI board of directors for three (3) two-year terms.