Samuel Cordey, Ph.D., is a board-certified specialist in clinical microbiology and was in charge of the Swiss National Reference Centre for Influenza between 2014 and 2018. He obtained his Ph.D. in Life Sciences in 2006 at the University of Geneva. He has since joined the Laboratory of Virology of the Geneva University Hospitals (2007), where he divides his time between translational research and routine diagnostics, including emerging viruses. His present research interests are related to the investigation of diseases of unrecognized viral etiology using molecular and high-throughput sequencing, their associated epidemiology (including human astroviruses, among others), and the development of diagnostic methods.