She attended medical school at the School of Medicine in Nice Sophia Antipolis University (France) and received her Ph.D. specialty of Communicable Diseases and Tropical Diseases at the Aix-Marseille University (France). She has been working on Toxoplasmosis since her fellowship with emphasis in serological diagnosis of Toxoplasma infection and its applicability to various patient populations. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine (Stanford, CA) working in the National Reference Laboratory for Toxoplasmosis in the United States directed by Dr. J. G. Montoya.