Researcher in Veterinary Parasitology and Animal Parasitic Diseases. She graduated in 2004 in Veterinary Medicine, then she spent some years in different veterinary practices to improve her clinical and surgical skills in pet animals medicine. Contemporarily, she improved her academic knowledge attending a Master on Veterinary International Cooperation and a post-graduate school in Animal Health, Breeding and Farm Production at University of Padua. In Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie she developed her interests in parasitology field working in research projects on emerging and re-emerging vector-borne parasitic diseases and their surveillance programs. In 2016 she graduated with a PhD in Veterinary Science with a thesis on “Parasitic diseases in pet animals and risks for human health”. Since the last year, she is a researcher and her main interests concern parasitic diseases of pet animals, overall of dogs and cats. Her research ranges from epidemiological studies on helminths and protozoa, with particular interest on those with zoonotic potential, to the assessment of new molecular procedures for the detection of parasites.