Pauliina Damdimopoulou is a professor of reproductive biology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a docent in toxicology and leads a research group “Chemicals and female fertility”. Dr. Damdimopoulou received her PhD in 2008 from the University of Turku, Finland, where she studied the effects of dietary polyphenols and estrogen signaling. She then completed postdoctoral studies on androgen signalling at a biotech industry in Paris, France, and on early embryo development and ovarian biology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2015, she established an independent lab focusing on the effects of chemicals on ovaries and female fertility. Dr. Damdimopoulou is also the co-coordinator of Sveafertil, Sweden’s national fertility preservation study for girls, the recipient of the 2023 ERC Consolidator Grant, and co-lead of the Environmental Endocrinology Focus Area for the European Society of Endocrinology. She has authored over 90 research papers.
