Christina Fotopoulou is Professor of Gynaecological Cancer Surgery in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK and the Deputy Director of the Ovarian Cancer Action Research Centre at Imperial College. She is an Honorary Chair in the Gynaecology Department at the Charité University of Berlin, Germany, where she trained and then later took the role of Vice Director of the Gynaecology Department.

Her surgical and scientific expertise focuses on the management of patients with advanced and relapsed ovarian cancer, profiling of tumour heterogeneity and integration of tumour biology factors with surgical effort under the umbrella of individualisation of surgical care.

Professor Fotopoulou has served as the lead of the Guidelines Committee of the British Gynaecological Cancer Society (BGCS), elected member of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO) council and lead of the ESGO Guidelines Committee and is also a member of the German AGO–Ovarian Cancer Study Group.

She is on the editorial board and reviewer for numerous international gynaecological and oncological journals and is a member of various international oncological committees.