Irina Cornaciu has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biosciences from the University of Graz in Austria. She joined EMBL as a Postdoctoral Fellow with a Marie Curie Fellowship within the EIPOD program. As a Staff Scientist in the Marquez Team at EMBL Grenoble, she has contributed to the set-up and development of a new generation of automated screening pipelines with crystallography. Irina is the CEO of ALPX, an EMBL spin-off based in Grenoble.