Laurence Delbrassinne currently works as a scientist in the scientific Institute of Public Health in Belgium (WIV-ISP). She graduated from Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) as a bioengineer, and shortly after, she started a research project on Bacillus cereus at the Scientific Institute of Public Health with the aim to develop and implement a mass spectrometry analytical method for the quantification of the B. cereus emetic toxin. She concurrently performed her PhD in the Laboratory of Food and Environmental Microbiology directed by Prof. Jacques Mahillon at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). After obtaining her doctoral degree, she worked on a new a research project, which focussed on B. cereus enterotoxins pathogenesis. Fascinated by the living world of microbiology, she thereafter acquired expertise in the field of foodborne pathogens by working on food poisoning outbreaks caused by pathogens like Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, E. coli VTEC, Campylobacter, and B. cereus. Recently, she extended her activities toward the anaerobic microbiology, becoming the head of the National Reference Centre/Laboratory for Clostridium botulinum and Clostridium perfringens at the WIV-ISP.