Panagiota (Youla) Fatourou (Greek: Παναγιώτα Φατούρου) is a Greek computer scientist, specializing in distributed computing and concurrent computing, including the design of data structures that can be used in non-blocking algorithms.
[1] She is a professor of computer science at the University of Crete, the former chair of the ACM Europe Council, and the founder of the Greek chapter of the ACM Council on Women in Computing.
[2] After postdoctoral research with Kurt Mehlhorn at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and with Faith Ellen at the University of Toronto, and a short-term position at the Hellenic Open University, she worked at the University of Ioannina from 2001 until 2009.
She moved to her present position at the University of Crete in 2009,[2] and is now a full professor there.
[3] In 2018, Fatourou became founding chair of the Greek chapter of the ACM Council on Women in Computing.