Dr. Michailidou Evangelia was born in October 1975 in Ghent, Belgium. At the moment she is a Post Doc researcher in the Department of Oral Medicine and Maxillofacial Pathology in Thessaloniki, Greece, working on long non-coding RNAs in oral cancer under a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. She has obtained her Ph.D. degree in July 2015 from the Department of Oral Medicine and Maxillofacial Pathology in Thessaloniki, Greece. Her thesis title was: Study on the expression of different mRNA markers in the saliva of patients suffering from oral squamous cell carcinoma and correlation of these markers to the early diagnosis of the disease. She was funded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and the Koulouridis grant from Procter and Gamble Co. During her Masters degree in Oral pathology she studied the role of VEGF in oral cancer. Thesis Title: The role of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in oral squamous cell carcinoma.

She is a member in oral health and pathology scientific associations and communities. She has published 9 papers in professional Journals with numerous citations. She has also lectured as an invited speaker at both national and international congresses. She is a reviewer and editorial board in eminent journals.