Eleonora Cella is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida (US). She earned her PhD in Public Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Her research focuses on investigating the patterns of gene flow in pathogen populations, focusing in phylogenetics and phylogeography as tools to recreate and understand the determinants of viral and bacterial outbreaks. Her experience is in the use of cutting edge genomic tools, analyzing next-generation sequencing data, and using advanced phylogenetic analytical algorithms and bioinformatics tools.