Manola’s education is in Demography and Social Statistics, and in Medical Statistics. She started her professional career in the veterinary epidemiology field. In 2011 she joined the European Commission (EC) at Eurostat, in the environmental and agricultural statistics field, and continued working in the same research area later at the  EC Joint Research Centre (JRC).

She finally moved to her interest research domain in Public Health in 2013, where at the JRC she coordinates the Cancer Information group, hosting and managing data from European population-based cancer registries contributing to the European Cancer Information System (ECIS), and supporting the coordination of activities of the European Network of Cancer Registries (ENCR).