Vanessa Jungbluth is a young researcher with more than 5 years of experience in the multi-disciplinary field of biosensors. She started her career at Philips Healthcare and the Austrian Institute of Technology, where she worked on optical biosensing for fast and reliable diagnosis of various medical conditions. As a MSCA fellow, she recently obtained her PhD degree in non-invasive cancer detection using plasmonic biosensing at the University of Catania in the framework of an H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017 funded project. Currently, Vanessa is working as assay developer for Delta Diagnostics, interacting with customers and partners, and expediting international collaborations.