Gabriella Kountourides is a DPhil student in biological anthropology and uses an interdisciplinary approach to understand the menstrual cycle, drawing on both anthropological and immunological explanations. She began her academic career studying zoology at the University of Leeds and did her masters in human evolution and behaviour at UCL. She then worked as a science educator at the Natural History Museum in London, before beginning her DPhil at the University of Oxford. She is passionate about science communication and her pet rabbits, Achilles and Zahavi.