Magdalena J. Koziol (Germany), independent investigator and doctoral supervisor at the Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing. She earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the discovery and functional characterization of novel DNA and RNA epigenetic modifications in vertebrates, particularly their roles in the development and progression of brain-related disorders. Her work has been published in leading international journals, including Cell, Genes & Development, Nature Biotechnology, Current Biology, and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. She has received the Award for Scientific and Technological Excellence from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).