Aimilia Rofouzou is an Associate Professor at the Hellenic Naval Academy (HNA), Department of Naval Sciences, and collaborating academic staff member at the Hellenic Open University (HOU). At HOU, she contributes to the MSc in Cultural Organizations Management and the M.Ed. in Teaching German as a Foreign Language. She also serves on the Academic Supervisory Committee of the M.Ed. program in Teaching German as a Foreign Language, with responsibility for academic standards, curriculum requirements, and the evaluation of student progress.
At HNA, she is Coordinator of Foreign Languages, supervises undergraduate dissertations, and teaches since 2005 the course German as a Foreign Language, including German naval terminology. She also co-teaches, with Dean Professor G. Galanis, the course Risk Analysis and Decision-Making within the Framework of the Common Security and Defence Policy. At HOU, she has supervised since 2017 more than 150 master’s theses and taught postgraduate courses in research methodology and techniques of composing scientific papers, cultural phenomena, open and distance learning, and German language-teaching methodology. She has also taught an undergraduate course in political ideologies in 20th century Europe at HOU, as well as courses in German Language at the Hellenic Army Academy.
Dr Rofouzou is HNA’s National Representative on both the Executive Academic Board and the Implementation Group of the European Initiative for the Exchange of Young Officers inspired by Erasmus and represents HNA to the European Doctoral School on the Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC), Brussels. In this capacity, she teaches annually in the ESDC Common Module on Maritime Security at HNA, covering the fundamentals of the Common Security and Defence Policy, the European educational cooperation in security and defence, and the role of the ESDC.
She holds a PhD in Foreign Policy and a BA in German Language and Philology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her further training includes education and teaching methodology, open and distance education, internet-supported German language teaching, terminology, and psycholinguistics. She has also completed the NATO-approved Gender Focal Point Course offered by the Crisis Management and Disaster Response Centre of Excellence in Bulgaria.
Dr Rofouzou serves on scientific committees of Greek and international journals and conferences. Her publications include books and articles on the European foreign and cultural policy; the Common Security and Defence Policy; international relations; contemporary history; teaching German as a foreign language; ICT in education; and German and Greek military terminology, with particular emphasis on naval terminology.