Dr. Christina Dalla is Associate Professor at the Dep. of Pharmacology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and President at the Hellenic Society for Neurosciences. Her work focuses on sex differences in animal models of depression and cognition, as well as screening of CNS-acting compounds and neurochemical/neurobiological studies. Dr. Dalla received her first diploma from the Pharmacy School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2000 and continued her studies in Neuropsychopharmacology, Behavioral Neuroendocrinology and Neurosciences in Athens, at the University of Liege in Belgium and at the Rutgers University of New Jersey, U.S.A. with two Marie Curie Fellowships from European Union. Dr. Dalla serves in Editorial boards, such as in “Hormones and Behavior”, acts as a Guest Editor in two Special Issues on Stress (Hormones) and Sex Differences (European J. of Neuroscience), has 54 research papers, 13 invited chapters in international and Greek books, over 2800 citations (h index: 28) and more than 100 abstracts and talks at international and national conferences. She has received numerous awards and distinctions, such as the “L’Oreal-Unesco” for Greek Women in Science and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology ECNP fellowship award in 2015. Dr. Dalla also serves as Founding member and Treasurer of the Institute of Stress Biology and Medicine and as an active member of the ECNP Preclinical Data Network Forum. She has served as member of the Governing Council of the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience from 2009 until now, as Secretary General from 2015 until 2017 and from 2017 until 2019 as President of this Society. Through these positions, she is actively representing Greece at FENS and at the European Brain Council. Dr. Dalla is also actively participating and organizing public activities for brain awareness, as member of the DANA initiative for the brain. Finally, she is active in advocacy and policy making in several areas of pharmacology and neurosciences with a focus on women’s health and gender equity.