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Rea Laila Antoniou Kourounioti studied Biology at Imperial College, London, and Mathematics at the University of Crete, Greece, blending interdisciplinary science. She obtained her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2014, working on a project involving artificial photosynthesis, which led to the development of a novel hybrid material that combines light harvesting complexes from plants with inorganic catalysts for CO2 conversion using visible light. Following her PhD, she was a postdoc at the John Innes Centre, focusing on epigenetic and environmental controls on flowering time in Arabidopsis, especially the vernalization process. This involved mathematical modeling and experimental methods to understand temperature sensing pathways and the strength of epigenetic memory linked to natural adaptation. In 2022, she joined the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in the School of Molecular Biosciences, where her research investigates how plants sense temperature, particularly their response to cold temperatures and the implications of global warming on plant development and seasonal recognition. Her work aims to predict future climates by uncovering molecular changes in plants' responses to temperature.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow
Teaching and researching plant science, specializing in temperature response in plants.