An MD with a PhD in Microbiology and Virology, she has years of experience in the field of testing for safety assessment. She set up and managed a transcriptomic platform for the development of standardized assays in toxicology, and she was responsible for supporting a program ensuring harmonization and validation of procedures in genetic testing for diagnostics purposes. For the Public Health Unit, she worked on Rare Diseases, representing JRC at the EUCERD meetings for the establishment of the European platform for the rare diseases registry. Today, she is responsible for the studies on non-animal models in biomedical research at the Chemicals Safety and Alternative Methods Unit, where she works in the field of knowledge sharing, dissemination, education, and training.