Maria Tarapoulouzi has a BSc in Chemistry, a PGDp in toxicology, and an MSc in Environmental Engineering. In 2020, she gained her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cyprus, focusing on spectroscopic characterization and the authenticity of dairy products, especially Halloumi cheese, in combination with chemometrics. She is currently a Post-Doc Researcher and a Chemometrics Specialist. She has been a teaching collaborator at several universities in Cyprus since 2018 for the courses “General and Inorganic Chemistry”, “Organic Chemistry”, “Toxicology and Forensics”, etc.