Evangelia D. Chrysina is a research director at the Institute of Chemical Biology at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. Since 2014, she has been a docent (Assoc. Prof.) in medical science-biomedicine at Örebro University, Sweden. Since 2008, she has been the Greek scientific point of contact for the ESFRI project Instruct and currently represents Greece through NHRF at the Instruct-ERIC council as a primary observer. She is a chemical engineer and an NTUA graduate with a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Bath, where she also worked as a research officer before joining NHRF as a reintegrated researcher from abroad (2001). After four years, she worked for a short period as a freelance scientific writer for the "Technology Marketplace" at INTRASOFT Intl. S.A. and then returned to NHRF as a researcher in 2006. She has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Training Grant by EC under FP4, Agriculture & Fisheries for her PhD (1997), the Rod Quayle prize (2000), the Paraskevi’s Gardiki-Kouidou prize by the HSBMB (2002) and short-term fellowships by the Wellcome Trust (2001) and Royal Society (2002-2003) for visiting LMB, the University of Oxford and the Institute of Cancer Research in London, UK.