[2] From 1956 to 1957, she received a scholarship to visit the École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France, where she studied under André Grabar and Paul Lemerle.
[3] At Princeton, Mouriki earned an MFA in 1968 and a PhD in 1970,[4] completing her doctoral dissertation on miniatures in Byzantine manuscripts of Cosmas Indicopleustes' Christian Topography.
[6] After receiving her PhD, Mouriki taught at the National Technical University of Athens, where she remained for the rest of her career.
[1] Mouriki also served as a member of the administrative council of the Greek Archaeological Society,[1] as a corresponding member of the Istituto di studi bizantini e neogreci,[3] and on an advisory committee for the Greek Ministry of Culture on the preservation of historical monuments at Mistra.
[1] Mouriki's areas of research included late medieval Cypriot icons,[7][8] Middle Byzantine-period mosaics,[9][10] and Palaiologan-era monumental painting programmes in Greece.