First person – Rafaela Konstantinidi

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Rafaela Konstantinidi is first author on ‘ Investigating the impact of poly(beta amino) ester-mediated FOXJ1 mRNA delivery on differentiation of primary human bronchial epithelial cells’, published in BiO. Rafaela conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Asha Patel, Laura Yates, Clare Lloyd and Sejal Saglani's lab at Imperial College London, London, UK. She is now a scientist at Medicover Genetics, Egkomi, Cyprus, investigating advanced genomic technologies for oncology.