Diana Cruz-Pulido has a Bachelor's degree in Microbiology and she earned two Masters degrees: Biological Sciences at Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), and Comparative and Veterinary Medicine at the Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio, USA). Currently, she is a Graduate Research Associate at OSU/OARDC Food Animal Health Research Program, in Wooster, Ohio, USA. Her fields of interest are Bioinformatics and Virology. For her Ph.D program, Diana is working on understanding infection and host-switch mechanisms of Coronaviruses.