Dr. Doitsidou studied Biotechnology at the Agricultural University of Athens (1993-1999). She obtained a master’s degree on Plant Biotechnology form Wageningen University, Holland, in 2001. She did her PhD thesis on Developmental Biology with Erez Raz at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany (2002-2005), for which she received the Peter Gruss and Herbert Jaeckle Prize for Scientific Innovation. Since 2005 she has worked as a postoctoral research scientist in the lab of Oliver Hobert at Columbia University Medical Center studying the development and degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in C. elegans. Her postdoctoral work was previously funded by EMBO.