Annie completed her PhD in Johannes Dessens' laboratory studying putative membrane skeleton proteins in Plasmodium berghei, and is currently working as a Research Fellow in his lab. Her research focuses on P. berghei alveolins and LCCL proteins.

Annie obtained her MSc in Biology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and a Diploma in Tropical Medical Biology from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. After spending two years as a Research Assistant in the Laboratory of Cell Genetics of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, she moved to the UK, where she worked as a Copy Editor for the Nature Reviews journals before joining LSHTM in 2006.