Niovi Santama, Ph.D. is Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cyprus. She is a molecular cell biologist, trained at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, following her basic studies at the University of Athens. She was the recipient of long-term postdoctoral Fellowships from EMBO and the Marie Curie HCM Programme (EU). In 2016 she was awarded a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award to conduct experiments at the Department of Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley. Her publications can be found at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Santama_N)