[2] Andrea Pauli is a group leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) at the Vienna Biocenter in Austria.

[8] Andrea Pauli's doctoral research focused on cohesin, a protein complex initially known for its essential role in holding sister chromatids together during cell division.

[13] This demonstrated that newly identified translated regions can encode previously missed yet functionally important small proteins.

Pauli and her lab have discovered mechanisms underlying embryo morphogenesis, fertilisation and egg dormancy.

[16] Focusing on fertilisation, Pauli and her lab identified the egg protein Bouncer as an essential factor for sperm-egg recognition in fish:[17] Bouncer is essential for sperm entry into the egg and sufficient to switch the species-specificity of fertilisation between zebrafish and medaka.