Maria is a Master 2 student in Epidemiology, at the Institute of Public Health, Epidemiology and Development (ISPED) in Bordeaux. She is doing a 5 month internship in the VINTAGE team under the supervision of Stéphanie Debette, focusing on mendelian randomization to explore the relation between cerebrovascular disease and dementia.

Before her Master 2,  she followed the “Frontières du Vivant” bachelor program in Paris, which is an  interdisciplinary bachelor program in life sciences, promoting learning through research, and then a Master 1 in Public Health at ISPED.