Stavroula Karapapa joined the University of Essex in 2020 as a Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Law. Karapapa has previously held the Chair of Intellectual Property and Information Law and Executive Directorship of the Centre of Commercial Law and Financial Regulation at the University of Reading; she has also taught at Brunel Law School, where she was the deputy Director of the Intellectual Property, Internet and Media Research Centre. Before joining the academia, she was a legal practitioner, specialising in intellectual property, commercial and civil law.