Ludivine Walter is an Assistant Professor at Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University. She received her Ph. D in Physiology, Nutrition and Physiopathology from Paris VII University under the mentorship of Pr Eric Fontaine. Immediately following her Ph. D, she completed a post doctoral training in Pr. Gyorgy Hajnoczky's lab at the Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, USA. Subsequently, she started using model organism in Pr Sylvia Lee's lab at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, where she was awarded a United Mitochondrial Disease Fellowship to work on mitochondria in aging processes in the nematode C. elegans. An ERG Marie Curie fellowship allowed to pursue her research in Hugo Aguilaniu's lab. She joined Bertrand Mollereau's lab in 2016 to study the role of the mitochondria in cell death and physiopathology. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in molecular biology and genetics.