Kaja Kasemets is a Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, with a specification in antimicrobial properties of nanomaterials. She received her MSc in Biotechnology from the Institute of Biotechnology, Estonian University of Life Sciences in 1994 and earned a Ph.D. in Natural and Exact Sciences from Tallinn University of Technology in 2002. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca from 2015 to 2016. She also serves as a Member of the Estonian Society for Microbiology, the Estonian Society of Toxicology, the Scandinavian Society for Cell Toxicology, and the Scientific Board of the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB).