Cindy Hudec

Cindy Hudec is originally from France and moved to Canada in 2016 after completing a Master’s degree in Environmental and Health Microbiology at Sorbonne University. She then pursued a Ph.D. in Life Sciences at the Université de Moncton, specializing in microbiology and genomics. Over the course of her career, she has held multiple professional roles ranging from supervising a SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic to conducting research on environment–health relationships and socioeconomic factors in New Brunswick. She later worked as a scientist at the Vitalité Public Health Laboratory, where she developed sequencing and RT-qPCR protocols for respiratory pathogens and contributed to provincial wastewater-based epidemiology initiatives. She is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Delatolla Research Group at the University of Ottawa, where her work focuses on developing and implementing multi-pathogen wastewater genomic monitoring systems in remote northern communities, particularly in Nunavik. Her research combines field sampling, molecular biology, and bioinformatics to improve public health surveillance in underserved regions.