I graduated at the Universities of Lausanne (Switzerland) and St. Petersburg (Russia) in French language and literature, Russian language and literature, and Linguistics. I have been an investigative journalist for over 20 years. I specialize at public health and pharmaceuticals, with emphasis on market approval, conflicts of interest, evidence-based medicine, design and methodology of clinical trials. I train journalists and researchers in the skills needed to investigate Big Pharma and to analyze medical research.

I am a guest speaker at universities and journalism organizations. I am also a translator and author. My investigations have been published as in-depth articles by Swiss media and by peer-reviewed biomedical journals. I won the Suva Media Prize, the Media Prize of the Swiss Academies of Sciences (medicine), and I received the Nicolas Bouvier Prize (Special Jury Prize) with Sept.info. With Serena Tinari, I co-founded Re-Check (www.re-check.ch), a non-profit organization that investigates and maps health cases according to the principles of evidence-based medicine and to the highest standards of investigative journalism. Re-Check contributes to projects at the intersection of academic research and investigative journalism.