Natalia Giovannini is an experienced professional with accumulated successful track record in technology transfer at EPFL (intellectual property, contracting, licensing and marketing) mainly in chemistry, medtech, biotech and pharmaceutical areas. She is member of the Board of swiTT, the Swiss association of university technology transfer since 2008. Previously she has spent 9 years in fundamental research in public university (regulation of transcription, developmental biology and translationally oriented research in molecular metabolism), after graduating from the University of Geneva as PhD.