Expert positions and consultations

- 2003: Member of the Scientific Committee for the selection of research applications for funding under the French Programme “ACI Microbiology” of the French Ministry of Research and New Technologies, the General Directorate for Health, the CNRS, the INRA, and the INSERM.
- 2004: Member of the Scientific Committee for the selection of research applications for funding under the Italian Programme “Infective and Anti-Infective Agents” of the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
- 2006 – 2011: Member of the Committee of National Reference Centres of the French Public Health Institute (“Institut de Veille Sanitaire”).
- 2008: Member of the ECDC’s Food- and Water-borne Diseases Coordination Group.
- 2010: Participant in the ECDC "Consultation on the development of a Scientific Writing Course for Public Health Experts in the area of Communicable Disease Control".
- 2012: Participant in the ECDC Expert Panel Meeting on the "Systematic Review of Public Health effectiveness of Molecular typing of Bacteria and Viruses".
- 2012: Co-ordinator of the 1st Evaluation of the European Programme for Public Health Microbiology Training (EUPHEM).
- 2013: Member of the Scientific Committee for the pre-selection of research applications for funding by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
- 2013: Participation in the ECDC Technical Consultation on "Harnessing genomics for epidemiological surveillance".
- 2013: Evaluator of proposal for the "Karatheodoris" Research Programme, University of Patras, Greece.
- 2013: Evaluator of proposals for the "2014 Research Grants" of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseasers (ESCMID).
- 2014: Evaluator of proposals for the "2015 Research Grants" of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseasers (ESCMID).
- 2014: Evaluator of research applications for funding by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.