Anastasia studied Archaeology and History of Art (BA) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Bioarchaeological and Forensic Anthropology (MSc) at University College London. She has participated in numerous archaeological projects and rescue and programmed excavations in Greece (Phaleron, Akrotiri, Palace of Nestor, Gaidourofas, Despotikon, Mnimouria-Krassades, Kirrha, Ayios Vasileios Survey etc), and has worked in commercial archaeology in the UK and France.

In 2024 she began her F.R.S.-FNRS funded PhD research, entitled “Children’s status in Minoan society. An interdisciplinary and diachronic approach to the study of children in Bronze Age Crete through an osteological and archaeothanatological analysis” at the UCLouvain and the Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3 in France, co-supervised by Prof. Charlotte Langohr and Dr. Aurore Schmitt. As part of her PhD research, she studies the nonadult human skeletal remains from Sissi, with a view to reconstruct their treatment before and after death.