Dr De Guidi joined the Institute Agro at the beginning of 2023, as temporary lecturer in Microbiology. She is affiliate to the IHEV (Institute of Higher Studies in Vine and Wine) and carries out her scientific research within the mixed research unit SPO (Sciences for Enology) of the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE).
She obtained a master’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology in Italy in 2017, followed by a PhD in Biotechnology and Microbiology in France, in 2021. She carried out her doctoral studies at INRAE’s SPO research unit and Institute Agro of Montpellier, in project funded by the European Union, as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie program “Aromagenesis”.
She has always combined research and teaching, working as a teaching laboratory assistant during her master’s degree, as a pedagogical tutor in microbiology and as teacher at several French universities (Nimes, Avignon and Montpellier) during her PhD.
After a post-doc in collaboration between the INRAE, the French Government and one of the world most important developers of oenological yeasts, the enterprise Lallemand, she started teaching microbiology to master students in Montpellier and recently joined the Vinifera team.
