Hélène Adihou studied in Strasbourg, France, where she received a degree in engineering and an MSc in chemistry. She completed her PhD in 2012 under the supervision of Dr. Vincent Aucagne and Dr. Agnès Delmas, at the Center of molecular biophysics in Orléans, France. She then moved to the group of Prof. Helge Bode at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, for postdoctoral work on the synthesis of nonribosomal peptides. In 2015, she joined the AstraZeneca- MPI satellite unit in Dortmund as a senior research scientist within. In 2020, she started a new role as innovation scientist for Polypetide during 2 years. Currently she is R&D innovation portfolio manager at Euroapi.