Mayya Sundukova, is a researcher affiliated with the Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE) and University of Extremadura (Spain), where she carries out her Master thesis in Narrative Therapy and Community Work.  Mayya is also a resident fellow at the Open Life Science, developing projects on communication and coaching. Mayya's contributions include content developing and editing for NASA Transform to Open Science (TOPS) Training module, mentoring and facilitation in the Open Life Science training cohorts. Mayya mentors younger researchers pro bono in several mentoring programs such as Referent, ReBECA and others. Within the Researcher Mental Health Observatory (ReMO) COST network, Mayya coordinates a community project on developing policy briefs on mental health in academia. Previously, Mayya pursued interest for 10+ years in mechanisms of pain and touch, while a Marie Curie Cofund Postdoctoral Fellow at European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and PhD in Neuroscience from SISSA (Italy).