Stratis Psaltou was born in Mytilene in 1970. He graduated from the Department of Social Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and History from the University of the Aegean. Since 2001 he has worked as a teacher of Secondary Education in public schools in Ilia, Lesvos, Athens, as well as in the Athonian Ecclesiastical Academy of Mount Athos for two years (2012-2014). From 2017 to 2020, he served as a consultant of the Institute of Educational Policy in the field of religion. He has taught as an academic fellow in Anthropology of Religion at the Department of Social Anthropology of Panteion University and Sociology of Christianity at the Department of Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.