Dr. Elena Ambrosino has a degree in Medical Biotechnology from the University of Torino Medical School (Torino, Italy), where she graduated in 2003 summa cum laude. After a first year as a Research Fellow in Italy working on cancer vaccines, she moved to the NIH (Bethesda, USA), working as a Post Doctoral Fellow in Immunology at the Vaccine Branch within the NCI. During the three years of research in the USA she studied mechanisms of immune regulation and in 2006 she was short-listed for the “PostDoc of the year Award”. Meanwhile, in collaboration with the University of Torino Medical School, she enrolled in a PhD program in Immunology and Molecular Biology, and obtained her degree in November 2007.

In 2008 she was awarded a fellowship by the French Foundation for Scientific Cooperation “Infectiopole Sud” to work in Marseille at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (Marseille, France). There, she conducted Public Health research in the field of clinical and genetic epidemiology of P.falciparum malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2009, after concluding her research in Marseille, she moved to Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands) to work at the Institute for Public Health Genomics (IPHG), where she is currently Assistant Professor and education coordinator.

As a teaching staff within the IPHG, she is responsible for developing and coordinating modules for master in Medicine and Global Health students. In addition, she is constantly involved in teaching students both at the under-graduate (BA), as well as the post-graduate (MA and PhD) level, and supervising BA, MA and PhD theses.

In 2015 she also obtained an Advanced Master in International Health from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (within the TropEd Network program). Her studies were conducted in several European and African countries and her thesis work was performed in Burkina Faso on ealry diagnosis of pediatric HIV.

Dr. Ambrosino has been previously the Manager of the Genome-based Research and Population Health International (GRaPH-Int) Network Administrative Hub and Associate Editor and Editorial Office Manager for the peer-reviewed journal ‘Public Health Genomics’ (IF 2.333). Currently she is still involved as reviewer and editorial board member of scientific journals.

In the past she also planned and coordinated: a workshop on Public Health Genomics at the European Conference on Public Health organized in Amsterdam (2010); the second International GRaPH-Int meeting (Rome, early April 2012); and developed a parallel session on Public Health Genomics at the World Conference on Public Health (Addis Ababa, late April 2012).