Professor Cobbaert is a European Specialist in Laboratory Medicine. She is heading the Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine at the Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, NL. Her research focuses on Precision Diagnostics with quantitative bottom-up proteomics for enabling a refined molecular definition of Health and Disease. She currently chairs the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) Scientific Division Executive Committee, involved with metrological traceability and standardization of medical tests (http://www.ifcc.org/ifcc-scientific-division/). She is a member of ISO TC 212 working group 2 on Reference Systems and a personal member of the EURAMET Research Council.

She represents the European Federation in Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) in the IVD subgroup of the Medical Device Coordination Group during meetings with the European Commission on the implementation of the IVDR 2017/746. In this capacity she chairs the EFLM Committee on European Regulatory Affairs (https://www.eflm.eu/site/page/a/1650). She is the EFLM liaison to BioMed Alliance in Europe.