Elisavet Theofanous was born in Limassol, Cyprus on November 6, 1989. In 2011 she was amongst the first graduates of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) where she graduated as a Mechanical Engineer. She then had her Master of Science (MSc) in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology in CUT in ‘Environmental Biosciences and Technology’ where she was the first graduate of the course in 2013. Since September 2012 she is employed as a Research Associate in a project funded by the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus concerning the investigation and the determination of the geothermal parameters of the lithologies in Cyprus, for the compilation of the geothermal map of the island.

She has 1 Journal publications and 4 Conference publications on aspects concerning the application of ground heat exchangers (GHE) installations.

The main simulation tool used in most of her work is FlexPDE while she had also worked with GLD. Her special fields of interest include applications of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and especially Geothermal Energy.