[3][4] After her studies, she began working in 1950 as a teacher in the private 'Athinaion' school, as women were not allowed in the Greek Archaeological Service at this period.

[5] She then attended the Pontifico Istituto di Archaeologia Christiana in Rome for postgraduate study from 1953 to 1954, thanks to an Italian scholarship.

[5][6] In 1979, Touloupa became a fellow of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, studying the sculpture of the temple of Apollo Daphnephoros in Eretria, which then formed the subject of her PhD dissertation at the University of Ioannina, awarded in 1982.

[4][7] In 1991–2, Touloupa received a Fulbright Scholarship to visit Princeton University in order to work on the late archaic temple pediments from Karthaia on the island of Kea.

[11] From 1990 to 2000, Touloupa wrote columns for the newspaper 'Ta Nea', which were collected in the books "From Pnyx to Pagrati" (2004) and "Past but not forgotten" (2008).

[7] The couple were arrested in 1969, during the period of the Greek military Junta; Evi was released after ten days, while Dimitrios was exiled from Athens, first to Thesprotia in north-western Greece and then to the Peloponnese, and then sent to prison without a trial; in an interview, she described the difficulties of travelling to see him after work on a weekend to bring him food, clothes, and books, and of life under the Junta in general.

[5][6] Touloupa died aged 97 on October 10, 2021, The Greek Minister of Culture and Sports, Lina Mendoni, praised her for her work "protecting and highlighting our cultural treasure, and supporting new, innovative and pioneering ideas, actions and projects for the times", and stated that she "linked her name with the history of Greek archaeology in the last decades of the 20th century".

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