Dr Viboud is a native of France, where she received an engineering degree in biomedical technologies from Lyon University (1998) and a Master of Public Health (1999) and Ph.D. in Biomathematics (2003) from the University of Paris. Her research focuses on the transmission dynamics and mortality burden of influenza. She is working at the interface between disease modeling, empirical data, evolutionary genetics, and public health. Her work has helped revisit historical pandemics in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, characterised the spatial and temporal transmission dynamics of epidemic and pandemic influenza, and quantified the benefits of various vaccination strategies in low- and high-income countries. She looks forward to applying the analytical methods developed for influenza to the study of other acute viral infections.