She was trained as a microbiologist at the university of Brest. She obtained a Ph D with a doctoral thesis entitled “ Modeling of Clostridium tyrobutyricum growth in hard cheese”.
She integrated ADRIA Technical Institute in 1998 and was involved in i) research about prediction of bacterial growth and inactivation in relation to the Food formulation, process and environment ii)services to Food industries and their suppliers iii) normalization about guidelines for conducting challenge testing.