Diletta Fornasiero is a PhD student at Université de Toulouse. She is a veterinarian who has worked since 2017 as a junior veterinary epidemiologist at the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Public Health within an Italian veterinary public health institute, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie. Diletta obtained a master’s degree in 2016 and a three-year postgraduate diploma in food safety in 2020. Her work activities include the study of the dynamics of livestock and zoonotic diseases, with a particular focus on avian influenza. Her research interests lie primarily in quantitative data analysis, statistical modeling, network analysis, and species distribution models. Since January 2024, she has been part of the EPIDESA group in the Interactions Hôtes-Agents Pathogènes joint research unit at the École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (University of Toulouse, France) for a PhD programme in phylogenetics, phylodynamics, and phylogeography of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Diletta's PhD research seeks to address critical gaps in the understanding of HPAI transmission dynamics.