Ioanna-Aglaia Vagena is a physicist and a Ph.D. candidate at the Medical School of Athens. She holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Patras, Greece, and an MSc in Nanomedicine from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Her Ph.D. research focuses on innovative nanomaterials for skin cancer, while her MSc thesis was on the creation of a theragnostic hybrid material consisting of carbon quantum dots, zinc oxide, and porphyrin for lung and breast cancer.