Panayiota Poirazi received the B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, in May 1996, and the M.S. degree in biomedical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Southern California, in May 1998 and July 2000, respectively. She is currently a Director of Research with the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece, and the Head of Dendrites Lab. She uses primarily computational modeling of neurons and networks, brain-inspired machine learning, and recently in vivo experiments in mice. Her research work focuses on understanding the role of dendrites in complex brain functions. Dr. Poirazi has received several awards for academic excellence, including the EMBO Young Investigator award in 2005, two Marie Curie fellowships in 2002 and 2008, an ERC Starting Grant in 2012, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel award of the Humboldt Foundation in 2018, and an EINSTEIN foundation visiting fellowship in 2019. She is a member of EMBO and the Secretary General elect of FENS.