Veronika von Messling currently serves as the Director General of the Life Science Division at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany and has previously held the position of Director General of the Veterinary Medicine Division at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut. With a strong academic background, Veronika von Messling has also worked as an Associate Professor at both Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, as well as an Assistant Professor. Veronika von Messling completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Virology at the Mayo Clinic and Foundation, after a similar fellowship at the Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover's Institute for Virology.