Vasiliki Sapountzi

She was born and raised in Florina and during the third year of junior high school she was tempted by the idea of becoming a biologist. She is now an undergraduate student at the Department of Biological Applications and Technologies in the University of Ioannina. Initially, she found Molecular Biology more appealing, but eventually she is into Conservation Biology. From an early age, she was fascinated by primates (chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys), so if not a human, she would prefer to be a Pan troglodytes chimpanzee, although her personality could be more in line with that of a brown bear’s (Ursus arctos) … Her most important contribution to science up to now is her voluntary participation in a program concerning the brown bear’s diet in the Prespa basin area (yes, it is exactly what you think, the study was conducted by analyzing bear scats!). She is a procrastinator, but has very good organizational skills and she usually examines everything down to the last detail. Her anxiolytics are pastry-making and hiking.