Eliane is one of the principal investigators of IeDEA-SA and the head of the cancer research group at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) at the University of Bern. She is a medical doctor with an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an MSc in Statistics from the University of Neuchâtel. Her research focus lies on HIV-related cancer and oncogenic viruses with a special interest in cervical cancer prevention among women with HIV. During a research fellowship awarded by the Swiss Cancer Research foundation she studied cervical cancer prevention methods at the University of North Carolina, USA, and at a cervical cancer screening program in Johannesburg, South Africa.