She has over 80 contributions as book chapters, or peer-reviewed scientific papers. Claudia Paoletti did her Master in Biological Science at the University of Rome (Italy) and her Ph.D. in Plant Genetics at the University of Connecticut, USA.  For the next three years she studied plant population genetics and biometry at Dalhousie University (Canada), continuing at the Research Institute for Industrial Crops in Bologna (Italy) where she focused on the evaluation of risks associated to the use of transgenic crops. She has been the Italian expert nominated by the European Commission, for definition of sampling plans for GMO detection in conventional seeds. She coordinated the European Commission sampling research project KeLDA and she has been the biometrics officer of the EU Community Reference Laboratory for GMOs. She is an expert consultant for ISO/IWA committees, OECD, CEN, the European Commission and FAO. She organised international training courses on sampling of food/feed agricultural commodities for the European Commission, UNIDO, PHARE project and several universities, both within and outside Europe. In January 2006 she joined the GMO Unit of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

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