Lara is a statistical geneticist and ecologist with a PhD in computational genomics from the University of Cambridge and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and independent research experience with the national Department of Conservation as a Humboldt Fellow in New Zealand. Since 2022 Lara has led her own research group, now on the professorship track at the University of Zurich and its Food Safety and One Health Institutes and as invited member of the One Health Advisory Council of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and previously as Helmholtz Principal Investigator at the Helmholtz AI Institute with a faculty position at the Technical University of Munich. Lara was named the Young Scientist of the Year by the German Association of University Professors in 2023. 

See a compact version of Lara's CV here.