Daria Kotova is a Postdoc in the group of Professor Sylvestre Bonnet in Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC). She is a biochemist who defended her PhD thesis in Molecular Biology with a strong physiological basis. For her PhD, she studied redox processes in brain cells in vivo and has an extensive experience in developing optogenetic tools and implementing them in various pathological models. During that time she published 15 papers in peer-viewed journals. Here in the MCBIM group at LIC, she is working on optimizing photoactivated chemotherapy for in vivo use in cancer treatment.