Maria BOTTIS is an Attorney-at-law and a Professor of Information Law, School of Information Science and Informatics, DALMS, Ionian University. In 1985, she topped the Greek National examinations for entrance in all Universities/all disciplines with 1998 points over 2000, and entered in Athens Law School first. She is a Honors graduate of Athens Law School (graduated first of class). She is a holder of a LL.M degree (Cambridge Law School UK) a LL.M degree from Yale Law School and a PhD on medical information law and ethics from the University of Athens. She was appointed Faculty Fellow at Harvard University, Center for Ethics and the Professions (2000-2001). 

Maria BOTTIS is the Director of the International Society for Ethics and Technology (ΙΝSEIT). She has authored and edited or co-edited twenty four works (books-monographs). She is also the author of more than 80 Greek and international publications on computer and information law/ethics, data protection, digital divide, library ethics, privacy medical/health law and others. She is the founder of the International Conference on Information Law and Ethics (ICIL) series. She has been the organizer or numerous symposiums, seminars, colloquiums e.tc. She has delivered more than sixty speeches, presentations, lectures in Greece and abroad. She is the Head of the Ionian University Research Team 'Information: History, Regulation and Culture' and the Director of the Laboratory of Documentation of Historical and Cultural Heritage of DALMS.

Ηer website is https://bottis.ihrc.gr/en/.