Francesca Dagostin is an environmental engineer, working as a researcher in the Applied Ecology Group at Fondazione Edmund Mach. Her main interests concern the analysis of environmental and ecological data and the development of statistical models to assess the influence of environmental drivers on vector-borne diseases. During the MOOD Science Webinars, Francesca presented her work conducted within the MOOD project framework, focused on the assessment of the ecological factors that are shaping the spread of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in Europe, using official epidemiological data provided by the European Surveillance System (TESSy).