Julianna Photopoulos is a freelance science journalist based in Greece. Her writing has appeared in the BBC, Chemistry World, Nature, New Scientist, SciDev.Net, and The BMJ, among others. She has also produced and presented the award-winning radio programme Vértice in Mexico and been involved in numerous film productions for the BBC Natural History Unit and The Royal Institution of Great Britain. In 2018, she was the first science journalist from the Balkans to have been awarded the EurekAlert! Fellowships for International Science Reporters and was a nominee of the European Writer of the Year Award. Julianna holds a biology degree and masters in both developmental genetics and science communication.