After completing a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University in the US, LP continued her research career in biophysics in Europe – first at the Vrije University in the Netherlands, and then at various labs in France, including CEA-Saclay and the SOLEIL Synchrotron. A shift in career to science management followed in the last decade, with a number of years spent managing, and setting up, European projects in the FP7 and H2020 framework programmes. As the coordinator of 19 Core Facilities at Institut Curie’s Research Centre since early 2018, LP has worked towards addressing the needs, and common challenges, of core facilities and research infrastructures, both within Institut Curie, and externally within networks and alliances such as EU-LIFE, Core for Life and CTLS.