Theodora Pavlidou was born and raised in Thessaloniki. She is a graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a degree in Biology; she continued her studies in Padua, Italy, where she completed her post-graduate training on “Reproductive Medicine & Biology”. In 2012, she completed her doctoral dissertation at the Stem Cell Biology laboratory of the University of Rome, on the topic of “Stem cells and guiding their differentiation with metformin”. For the past few years she has been working at IAKENTRO as an embryologist and has been trained in all the assisted reproduction techniques.