I graduated in Veterinary Medicine at the Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche Veterinarie Università di Bologna in 2015, after which I worked for two years at the Italian health authority and research organization for animal health and food safety, the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie. I then pursued my PhD in Infectious Diseases and Bacterial Genomics at the University of Glasgow, which I completed in 2021. My PhD work focused on the role of mobile genetic elements and of the accessory genome in host-adaptation of the multi-host pathogen Streptococcus agalactiae, also known as Group B Streptococcus.
I am currently working at the BEBP unit at Institut Pasteur as project manager of the KlebNET-GSP, a large collaborative project supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation which aims at providing the scientific community with a unified platform for genomic surveillance of Klebsiella pneumoniae and at creating an international network of researchers working on this pathogen.