Giulia Matusali, PhD (female). Dr Matusali has 22 years of experience in the field of Virology, a post graduate degree in the laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases and a PhD in immune response to viral infections. She has expertise in the investigations of host-pathogen interaction, viral tropism, mucosal transmission, and immune response to HIV and emerging viruses. She has a longstanding experience in BSL-3 working. She participated in Zika outbreak response, in actions to respond to COVID-19 pandemic, Mpox global outbreak and Dengue authoctonous transmission in non endemic countries.