Dashboard – Genetics Zone

Education:
1. Public school in Athens Greece
2. Public high-school in Athens Greece
3. BSc: University of Crete, Greece: Biology Degree
4. UCL: Erasmus traineeship
5. PhD: University of Cambridge & EMBL
Qualifications:

I scored really well on my equivalent A-levels in Greece

I was top 15% of my class during my biology degree.
Work History:

Research assistant at University College London for 1 year, then started my PhD
Employer:

Cambridge University

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

About Me:

I live in Cambridge, UK. I am a cancer research in the day and sing & have fun with my friends at night. I really like computers, learning about life itself and travelling around the world. I grew up in Greece, where I lived in a big city but also in an island. What I liked mostly there was the sea, cold coffee and the waves!
My pronouns are:

she/her
My Work:

I work in this institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cABhbUHsKIk

My job is to analyse health-data and data about the genetics of different people, to understand what is causing the disease and how their disease evolves in time.
My Typical Day:

I wake up and brew my tea. Once I have my breakfast I get to the bus and go to the institute where I do cancer research in Cambridge. My work involves analysis data so the first thing I do is log in to my computer and see the progress of running analysis. Then, depending on the day I will either code and run more algorithms, or I will go meet with other scientists that I work with, to discuss and tackle together problems. Occasionally I present and communicate my work in the institute.
What I'd do with the prize money:

I will make an animation video on youtube where I explain my profession in different languages, so young people from all over the world can understand it better.

Maria Kalyva