Dr Florentia Fostira (F) is a Research C’ in the Institute of Nuclear & Radiological Sciences and Technology, Energy & Safety at NCSR “Demokritos” since March 2020. She has been an Adjunct Researcher holding a Fellowship from SNF Foundation since July 2017. She has received the ‘’Unesco-L’oreal’’ Award for Women in Science for her scientific contribution, in 2014. She holds a Bachelor in Science degree in Molecular Biology from King’s College London, a Master’s in Science degree in Molecular Medicine from Imperial College London, UK and a PhD in Cancer Genetics from Molecular Biology and Genetics Department of University of Thrace. During her post-doctoral research in 2013, she worked in Professor Mary-Claire King’s laboratory at the University of Washington, USA where she was trained in next-generation sequencing technologies. She is a European Board-certified Clinical Laboratory Geneticist since 2017. Her main research interest focuses on hereditary cancer syndromes and the underlying genetic predisposition, which is implemented through the identification of predisposing genetic variants, which can be targeted therapeutically. She has more than 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals and her h-index is 31. She has supervised more than 10 student theses and she has given more than 200 oral presentations in National and International Conferences, following invination.