Roula Tsokalidou is a graduate of the English Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1989) and a PhD holder from the Department of Linguistics, Monash University, Australia (1994). Her PhD was on code-switching among second generation Greek-Australians. She has extensive experience in issues of education and communication concerning (im)migrants and refugees. Since 2009 she is the head of Polydromo (http://polydromo.web.auth.gr/index.php/el-gr/), a group about bilingualism and multiculturalism in education and society.
Since 2018 she directs the Confucius Institute of AUTh and coordinates its projects (http://confucius-institute.web.auth.gr/en/)
During the academic years 2019-2021 she served as the head of the School of Early Chindhood Education of AUTh.