We are delighted to welcome Dr Claudia Fracchiolla to the Cell EXPLORERS team! Claudia, native from Venezuela, is a physicist who received her training in the USA. Her research background is mainly in Physics and Physics Education Research (PER) and she received her PhD in Science Education from Kansas State University (KSU) in the summer of 2016. Claudia has a high level of experience in outreach and informal learning programmes: as a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow