Francesca Dagostin is an environmental engineer, with a multidisciplinary background. Her research is focused on assessing the impacts of several ecological and environmental drivers (such as, for example, biodiversity loss, climate change and land use) on the emergence and spread of zoonoses, through the analysis of eco-epidemiological data and the development of predictive models.

After graduating from the Polytechnic University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano), she worked as a post-graduate researcher at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (CIDD) of the Pennsylvania State University, studying the dynamics of co-infection of gastro-intestinal parasites. Once back in Italy, she first worked as a GIS Analyst in the environmental office of the company SINA S.p.A., and afterwards as a Data Science Consultant for several Italian and international companies.

In July 2021, she joined the Applied Ecology unit and now works as a researcher within the European project MOOD H2020 , with the aim of developing innovative tools and services to monitor and promptly identify new health emergencies in Europe, in the current context characterized by global environmental, climate and social changes.