After studying medicine and specializing in clinical biology at UCLouvain, Dr. Alexia Verroken was hired in 2011 as a resident in the Microbiology Department at Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc. In 2014, she was appointed Assistant Laboratory Head and simultaneously worked as a medical hygienist in the clinic.

In 2016 she earned her PhD in Medical Sciences at UCLouvain after successfully defending her thesis: "Contribution of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry to the management of bloodstream infections and for typing in outbreak investigations". Her primary research interests include rapid diagnosis of sepsis, management of hospital-acquired outbreaks and mass spectrometry. Dr. Verroken is author/co-author of 10 peer-reviewed papers and is actively involved in the training of specialized assistants and laboratory technicians. She is also an expert in the microbiology group at the Institute of Public Health (IPH/WIV) and teaches hospital hygiene courses at the Haute école Léonard De Vinci.