She received the Ordre national du Mérite from the French Government in 2018, and the Jakob Eriksson Prize 2023 for her work in mycology and plant pathology in cassava and potato.
She moved to Paris, France to start her master's degree in molecular and cellular biology at Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
During her Ph.D. she studied the science of life biology, diversity and adaptation of plants at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and she graduated in 1999.
[3] She moved to William Earl Fry's laboratory at Cornell University to conduct postdoctoral research in Ithaca, New York between 2000 and 2004.
[10] The French government bestowed her with the Ordre du Mérite in 2018,[2] and she received the 2023 Jakob Eriksson Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.