Valeria Gottardo joined the NLC Technology Assessment and Strategy team in August 2022. She has a background in healthcare engineering with a BSc in Biomedical Engineering at Universita’ degli Studi di Padova and Universidad Pompeu Fabra, and an MSc in Bioengineering at Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. Valeria worked as a Data Scientist at Fresenius Medical Care, developing hospital datasets and instrumentation algorithms to enhance chronic kidney disease patients’ treatment and life expectancy. She is excited to share everything she has learned in the medical and IT fields with the NLC team and looks forward to learning and collaborating to improve the healthcare sector.