Dr. Elise Daems obtained her doctoral thesis in Chemistry, 2021 at the University of Antwerp, as a national science foundation (FWO) fellow on the topic “Shaping up oligonucleotides: aptamer-target recognition investigated by native mass spectrometry”. Currently, she is working in the A-PECS group at the University of Antwerp on the development of a singlet-oxygen photoelectrochemical detection platform for nucleic acid-based biomarkers in the field of infectious diseases and cancer diagnostics.