Paraskevi Karousi is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. She has obtained a B.Sc. degree in Biology and has also studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, as an Erasmus student. She is an associate member of the Hellenic Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, as well. Her research interests include small RNA biology, circular RNAs, bioinformatics, molecular biomarkers, and cell biology