Flavia Vischi Winck is an assistant professor at the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture at the University of São Paulo, Brazil and is the head of the Laboratory of Regulatory Systems Biology. She holds a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Potsdam (Germany) (2011) and a master's degree in functional and molecular biology from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) (Brazil) (2007). Her research interests are related to microalgae and plant systems, synthetic biology, gene expression regulation, metabolic control mechanisms, and sustainable applications of microalgae biotechnology.