Nina Novikova completed her PhD at the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland focusing on ultrafast time resolved spectroscopy of novel porphyrin systems. She subsequently worked as a research fellow at the University of Auckland on application of ultrafast transient absorption/fluorescence spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy in combination with chemometrics data analysis. In April 2023 she joined Exciton Science as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne.