Dr Veronesi is a medical and veterinary entomologist with 30 years of experience in the control and preparedness of vector-borne diseases.
In my career, she hold several roles, including project manager, group leader, student and staff supervisor, private consultant, reviewer of publications, theses, and scientific reports, and coordinator of clinical trials for vaccine efficacy tests for government, research institutes, universities, NGOs, and private industries.
she served as a consultant, project evaluator, and advisor for several organisations (Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, European Food Safety Authority, United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency) on revising and editing protocols, standard operating procedures, guidelines, and risk assessment plans for emerging diseases complying with the One Health perspective .She was the Director of the European Society for Vector Ecology (E-SOVE) for two mandates (2013-2018).
Her field of expertise is surveillance and control of local and invasive mosquitoes. In the last twenty years, She has focused her research on the interaction between pathogens and vectors, investigating transmission mechanisms and aspects of vector competence.
She is now working at the Institute of Microbiology of the Department of Environment, Architecture and Design of the University of Applied Science and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). Here, she coordinate three projects on emerging vector-borne epidemics (dengue and West Nile virus) funded by the European Commission (HorizonEurope) and a project on the impact of biopesticides on public health and the environment.
Dr Veronesi has authored more than 50 papers and two book chapters. She specialize in working under biosafety containment level 3, providing courses on how to work in these facilities and conducting risk assessments for new laboratories.