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Category: This Little Girl is Me

22 February 2022

I am still this smiling but stubborn little girl at 4 years of age. I am the youngest of a large (and loud) family and grew up in a small city with 20,000 inhabitants in South America (Brazil). My mother…

21 February 2022

As a molecular biologist, I have a deep interest in understanding how life works at the cellular and molecular levels. I have worked in research projects in the fields of microbiome, cancer, synthetic biology and recoding. I am also interested…

18 February 2022

If someone had told me 20 years ago that one day I will be where I am now, I would have laughed. In fact, most of the things I do or am today, I have denied one way or another…

17 February 2022

I was born in Tunis, Tunisia. Since my early childhood, I have been fascinated by biology. I fed my curiosity through documentary films, science magazines and science-fiction films. My parents encouraged me by buying me encyclopedias, scientific novels and taking…

16 February 2022

As a little girl, I was always told by my family that I was special and there was nothing that girls could not achieve. I have a lot of good memories of my childhood and growing-up days. I was the…

15 February 2022

From a very young age, this little girl was interested in exploring everything around her, and loved animals and nature. This curiosity continued as a girl and a woman, and being so curious, what was more logical than to love…

14 February 2022

This is a story of a 3-years-old young village girl who had never imagined herself as a scientist or even as part of an international platform. She comes from a low-income family and had a limited perspective on daily life….

11 February 2022

The little girl in this photo is 6 years old and started her school life on the day the photo was taken. She went on to become one of the youngest women professors in Turkey at the age of 36….