Alexia completed her PhD in the laboratory of Richard Treisman at the London Research Institute of Cancer Research UK (now the Francis Crick Institute) in London, UK. She carried out her postdoctoral research in the lab of Joan Massagué at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She joined the Nature Cell Biology editorial team in 2010, championing cancer biology as a major field at the journal while also handling a broad range of other areas from core cell biology to biophysics.