Monica Mirolo is a doctoral researcher at the Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ), a state-of-the-art One Health research center at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover in Germany. She is supervised by of Prof. Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus and Dr Martin Ludlow. She holds a degree in animal sciences, and she completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Udine, Italy, and her master’s degree at Wageningen University & Research, in The Netherlands. She has worked with multiple viruses including emerging herpes-, hepato-, and
reoviruses, as well as SARS-CoV-2 and highly pathogenic avian influenza virus A/H5N1. She has used biological and molecular techniques in virology at both biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2) and BSL-3, in the development of intervention strategies for emerging viruses. Her research interest is the detection and study of emerging viruses from wildlife, that may cause epidemics, or even epizootics and pandemics.