Lemos obtained her BA from the
University of Athens and her doctorate from
Somerville College, Oxford. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Regional characteristics in the Protogeometric Period" and was completed in 1988. After her doctorate, she got a fellowship at Somerville and
St Peter's College, Oxford. From 1995 to 2004, she was a
lecturer and then
reader at the
University of Edinburgh. In 2004, she joined the
University of Oxford as a Reader in Classical Archaeology and a
Fellow of
Merton College, Oxford. She was appointed Professor in Classical Archaeology in 2007. She is a corresponding member of the
German Archaeological Institute, a fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London. She was the
Archaeological Institute of America Kress Lecturer and the
Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Professorial Research Fellow in 2014. Lemos has directed excavations at
Lefkandi since 2003. ==Selected publications==