Kristina is a MSc student at Heriot- Watt University studying Climate Change: Impacts and Mitigation. Her MSc research project will investigate learning behaviour, memory formation and gene expression in the great pond snail (Lymnaea stagnalis) in response to various stressors.

Kristina completed her undergraduate degree in Zoology at the University of Aberdeen. Her BSc research project was undertaken at both Wenzhou University and the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, where she tested the Heat Dissipation Limitation Hypothesis in Swiss Mice.