Claudia Filippone is a virologist with an international scientific career. She was trained at the University of Bologna (Italy) and the NIH in Bethesda (USA), and achieved her PhD in 2007. She was then fellow at the Haartman Institute (University of Helsinki - Finland). During these years, she has studied both molecular and cell biology aspects of human parvoviruses.

She then acquired >10 years research experience at Institut Pasteur in France and at the Pasteur International Network in Africa, working on viral emergence and zoonoses, especially on Non-Human Primate retroviruses and hemorrhagic fever viruses. In Madagascar, as International Technical Expert of French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, she has investigated zoonotic hantaviruses in both animal reservoir and humans, and she acted for public health priorities, heading the arbovirus National Reference Center and coordinating the biological surveillance across the country.

Dr Filippone has been largely involved in teaching and training activities, as well as capacity building actions.

She joined the European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents in 2021. She is largely involved on supporting implementation of research projects, including TransNational Access projects, on Risk Group 4 viruses, SARS-CoV-2/ COVID-19 and epidemic/pandemic-prone diseases.

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