Her expertise and research interests are in the areas of Public International Law, with a focus on international humanitarian law, international human rights law, armed conflict, historical memory, and humanitarian matters broadly speaking. In 2012 and 2013 Nadia held early-career positions in policy and advocacy at the Republic of Cyprus Permanent Representation of Cyprus to the EU, in Brussels, and the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency, in Vienna. Since her return to Cyprus in 2014 she has worked with a number of Cyprus-based and international non-governmental organisations and other institutions, doing fieldwork and providing legal assistance in the area of migration and refugee law and facilitating workshops and trainings. She completed her PhD on early inter-communal violence in Cyprus in 2022 at the University of Lancashire (then, the University of Central Lancashire – UCLan), based at the Cyprus Campus of the university (UCLan Cyprus), where she has held the position of Associate Lecturer in International and Comparative Public Law (Adjunct Faculty) since 2018.

She is the recipient of multiple scholarships and grants that have allowed her to present and discuss her work internationally, funded by the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S, 9th Annual Conference 2023, New Zealand), the Institute for Global Law and Policy – Harvard Law School, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) and the Central European University (Global Scholars Academy 2022), as well as the Leibniz Institute of European History, University of Exeter and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (Global Humanitarianism Research Academy 2019), among others.

A monograph, based on her PhD thesis, entitled Law’s Politics: The Cyprus Troubles, 1960-1968 was published in September 2025. The book is a legal-historical account of ethnic violence in the first eight years after the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus, examining international and internal legal and political developments, benefiting from previously unpublished archival material, including the ICRC archive in Geneva. Based on this work, she is currently conducting interdisciplinary research on the law and politics of other long-term ‘complex’ armed conflicts, from the perspective of public international law, comparative constitutional law and legal history, as well as the Social Sciences and the Humanities.

She has previously collaborated with PCC and Truth Now NGO for the delivery of the Missing Persons in Cyprus: Observations from the past and recommendations for the future report (2019). A comprehensive list of other publications is available here.