Alexandra Schoeny is a researcher at INRAE. After studying agricultural engineering, she specialised in plant pathology and obtained her PhD from AgroParisTech in 1999. After working for 15 years on the epidemiology of fungal diseases, particularly pea anthracnose, as part of a post-doctoral fellowship at SARDI in South Australia, she has been working on vector-borne diseases at the Plant Pathology Unit in Avignon since 2009. Her work aims to better understand (and even predict) the development of viral epidemics in open-field vegetable crops, in particular by seeking explanatory factors relating to the dynamics of vector aphid populations, and to design and/or evaluate innovative control methods to reduce their harmfulness (combining genetic control and field margin management, use of service plants, etc.). Since 2014, she has been teaching the basics of plant health epidemiology as part of a Master's degree in Biological Sciences at Avignon University.