Victoria a W1 Professor of Translational Parasitology at Heidelberg University, Medical Faculty and Reader in Vector Biology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on malaria transmission biology, particularly insecticide resistance in mosquito vectors and how vector control interventions influence parasite development and transmission.

Victoria leads a research group studying the molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying insecticide resistance and sub-lethal exposure and how these changes affect mosquito biology and interactions with malaria parasites. She additionally has research focused on insecticide discovery, parasite drug resistance and transmission and insecticide resistance in Triatomine vectors of Chagas disease. Her work combines molecular biology, advanced microscopy, multi -omics and experimental P. falciparum infection approaches to better understand the full impact of malaria control interventions on transmission.

Her research is supported by several international funding bodies, including the European Research Council, the Gates Foundation, the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG). Through collaborations with academic partners and organisations involved in malaria control, her work aims to inform the development and evaluation of next-generation vector control strategies and improve understanding of how drug resistance in the parasite impacts development within the mosquito vector.

Victoria graduated from the University of Oxford with an MA in Biological Sciences and received her MSc and PhD from the University of Warwick, with the latter in collaboration with LSTM and previously held a post-doctoral fellowship from the Medical Research Council focused on understanding the molecular basis of pyrethroid resistance at LSTM.