Antonina Kolokolova is a faculty member in the Computer Science Department at the Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada). She obtained her PhD in 2005 from the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Stephen Cook. Before taking her current position, Antonina was a postdoctoral researcher at the Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic, and at Simon Fraser University (Canada). Her main research interests are in theoretical computer science, in particular, computational complexity theory, mathematical logic and proof complexity. Antonina is also interested in the connections between theory and neuroscience.