[1] She was educated in Monaco and earned a master's degree in biochemistry from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.

[1] She earned a Master of Advanced Studies in molecular virology from the Pasteur Institute, and a PhD in biology from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.

[1] There is no evidence that Vidal officially directed a thesis;[3] she published one scientific peer-reviewed paper as last author[4] and has an h-index of 14 (retrieved on Web of Science, February 2021).

[1] On 17 May 2017, Vidal was appointed Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation in the First Philippe Government.

[7] In March 2019, Vidal criticized the Polish Institute of National Remembrance for its role in the disruption of Holocaust conference in Paris.