Spyridoula Arathymou was born in Greece in 1976. She graduated at the faculty of Archive and Library Sciences, Ionian University and she is candidate doctor at the department of Cultural Technology and Communication, Aegean University, Lesvos, Greece.
From 1999 to 2000 she worked as an archivist at the Institute of Neohellenic Research/ National Research Foundation.
From 2000 to 2001 she participated as a researcher in the program ‘Interreg II’.  Research in the State Archive of Napoli to study the relations between the Kingdom of Napoli and Two Sicilies and the Ionian Islands.
In 2002 she was responsible for the documentation of the book: ‘The Commercial Union of Athens. 1902-2002.’
From 2002 to 2003 she worked as archivist at the Greek Ministry of Culture.
Since 2003, she has participated  with full scholarship in the research program: ‘Development of cultural technologies for the recording, interpretation and museological development of the industrial heritage’, funded by the Greek Secretariat of Science and Technology and realized by the Institute of Neohellenic Research / National Research Foundation.
She is member of the International Council on Archives, the Association of Greek Archivists and the TICCIH- Greece.