[2] Her dissertation was titled Molecular determinants of influenza A virus replication and pathogenesis.

[4] From 2014 to 2015, de Wit spent 4 months in a field lab in Monrovia, Liberia in charge of patient diagnostics for several Ebola Treatment Units in the area, to help contain the Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia.

[2] In 2020, de Wit was named as a co-recipient of a Golden Goose Award for excellence in federally funded research with Kizzmekia Corbett, Barney Graham and her spouse Vincent Munster.

[5] While a PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam, de Wit met researcher Vincent Munster, whom she married in 2009.

[5] Munster has a separate research lab at Rocky Mountain Laboratories[5] and is also a virologist.