Anouk Lafortune is a policy officer in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) unit, in the Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture at the European Commission. She notably works on the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship action, and on more horizontal topics for the programme, including academia-business cooperation, research assessment and the end-of-fellowships surveys. Before joining the Commission, she was an early-career researcher and holds a doctoral degree in social sciences from Durham University.