Diletta Fornasiero is a veterinarian working since 2017 at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, an Italian institute of Veterinary Public Health, as a researcher epidemiologist. She obtained her DVM degree in 2016 and a 3-year post-graduate degree in Food Safety in 2020. She has been working on the epidemiology of livestock diseases and, in particular, on the management of Avian Influenza outbreaks, on-field epidemiological investigations and sampling procedures. She has also been involved in the study of vector-borne diseases (in particular West Nile Virus and Usutu) and in the analysis of mosquito and climatic-ecological data to investigate the most important drivers affecting population dynamics and, in turn, the spread of the diseases. She has been collaborating with colleagues from the Virology Department (which is also the Italian National Reference Laboratory, and the European Reference Laboratory for Avian influenza and New Castle disease) as well as with the Parasitology and Microbiology Departments of the same Institute for scientific productions, data, and knowledge sharing. Her research interests focus on quantitative data analysis and statistical modelling, network analysis, and Species Distribution Models.