Adina Chiș is a lecturer at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, “Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca. She received her B.Sc. in Biology in 2005 and her M.Sc. in 2006 from the Faculty of Biology, Babeş-Bolyai University. In 2011, she completed her Ph.D. in biotechnology at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca. Since 2011, she has been a member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, where she also carried out her postdoctoral research with funding from the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research. Her postdoctoral research has focused on genetic influences on stress reactivity in infants, and she has contributed to gene-environment interaction studies on biomarkers of stress reactivity.