Dr. Niki Mougiou is a biologist and a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas. Her scientific interests involve the analysis of olive cultivars, the study of the genes participating in antioxidant biosynthesis in olive fruit, and the heterologous production of antioxidants in yeast biofactories. Her current research is mostly focused on population genetics and marker-assisted breeding of cultivated plants using SSR/ISSR, genetic analysis of cultivars using Next-Generation Sequencing, and microbiome sequencing of foods and environmental samples.