Dr. Eleni Panagiotou is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University. She obtained her PhD from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in Applied Mathematics and was a visiting researcher in the Department of Physics at the EPFL in Lausanne, in the Department of Materials at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, and at the Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK. During 2013-18 she was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and during 2018-2022, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dr. Panagiotou’s research interests in topology and applied knot theory are at the interfaces of Materials, Physics, Biology, and Engineering. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to quantify and understand the effects of entanglement on the properties of active systems, in particular biomolecules in cells.