Dr Korina Manolidi graduated the Chemistry Department (2011) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UOA), and received her master degree in Chemical Analysis and Quality Control (2013) from the same department. In 2014 she joined the Group of Photo- Catalytic Processes and Environmental Chemistry at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” and carried out her PhD thesis entitled “Development of analytical methods for the determination of cyanotoxins in water, plant and animal tissues using liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry” under the supervision of Dr. Anastasia Hiskia. She received her PhD degree in the field of analytical chemistry (2021) from UOA in collaboration with NCSR “Demokritos”.