Kathelina Kristollari is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biotechnology Engineering at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She earned her bachelor's degree in Biotechnology (2015-2018) from the Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana, Albania. In 2020, she completed her master’s in Molecular and Industrial Biotechnology at the same institution. That same year, she began her PhD in the Biosensors Lab under the supervision of Prof.Dr. Robert S. Marks. Her research focuses on diagnostics and the development of point-of-care (POC) biosensors.