Dr. Cinzia Santucciu obtained her Doctoral Degree in Science, a PhD in Pathology of Animal Reproduction and a Pg Dip in Clinical Pathology from the University of Sassari. She is a researcher at the National (CeNRE) and International (Woah) Reference Center for Echinococcosis and at the Zoonotic Pathologies Laboratories, at the Instituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale of Sardinia. She carried out her laboratory training at Dublin City University in Ireland and at the Australian National University.