Frans Kokojka is a doctoral researcher in the Biosensors lab, at the Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He was awarded the STSM and was hosted by Dr. Ana R. Diaz-Marrero at Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología, CSIC, Spain.


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Eleni Christoforou is an early career researcher affiliated with the Oikotoxicologia group of the Cyprus University of Technology. For her STSM titled “Biodiversity of coastal meiofaunal species of Cyprus”, she was hosted at Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in Leiden, Netherlands.

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Azza Silotry Naik is an assistant lecturer at TUDublin, Ireland. She was awarded the STSM and carried out her research on the topic ‘To investigate the chemical stability of microalgal proteins to be used as functional ingredients’ at Dr. Mahesha Poojary’s lab at the Department of Food Science at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.


Andreas Christou is a scientific associate at Cyprus University of Technology, in the Chemical Engineering Department. He was awarded to a STSM at Hellenic Centre of Marine Research at the Heraklion, Crete.



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Jokūbas Krutkevičius is a PhD student at Sector of Applied Biocatalysis at the Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Centre of Vilnius University (Lithuania). He was awarded with a Short Term

Buki Rinkevich was awarded with STSM at the Comprehensive Pneumology Center at Helmholtz Center Munich for performing metabolomics on thraustochytrids maintained under various media conditions.