Vasiliki graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2004 and she is a practicing architect and a member of TEE in Greece since 2005.

Lighting design started as an area of interest and soon gave her a new professional direction. She completed the MSc Light and Lighting at the Bartlett, UCL in 2006 and soon after she joined Arup Lighting in London. While at Arup she had the chance to work on some high profile projects such as the Acropolis Museum, Dublin Airport, Tate Modern Extension, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre in Athens.

Merging architecture, urbanism and lighting, Vasiliki’s research on Glasgow’s riverfront urban lighting patterns was shortlisted at the Young Lighter Awards in 2009 and was later published by University of Lausanne. The topic further enhanced was presented at the 2011 PLDC, Professional Lighting Design Convention in Madrid.

In July 2013, Vasiliki moved from a senior lighting designer role at Arup to establish her own independent consultancy, Idea Design with clients including the Rothschild family office and the Rothschild Foundation.

In June 2017 she joined GIA Equation, a well- established lighting design practice as an Associate Director. Her role was looking after the design team and a wide range of private clients & prominent projects in the UK and abroad.

Since July 2020 Vasiliki is operating through her practice Idea Design Ltd. and in collaboration with other likeminded design practices and designers. Idea Design is lighting design consultancy based in London and Athens.

Vasiliki is an independent lighting designer with no commercial affiliations to the manufacturing industry. She is a professional members of the IALD – International Association of Lighting Designers and has been active with the IALD Membership, LIRC and other lighting committees. She has been a judge of various design and lighting design awards over the years.