Professor Carola Vinuesa was born in Spain and obtained a medical degree at the University Autonoma of Madrid. She undertook specialist clinical training in the UK and in 2000 was awarded a PhD by the University of Birmingham. A year later she was the recipient of a Wellcome Trust International Travelling prize Fellowship to do postdoctoral work at The John Curtin School for Medical Research in The Australian National University. Since 2006 she has been a group leader. She has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Science Minister’s Prize for Life Scientist of the year (2008), the Gottschalk Medal of the Australian Academy of Sciences (2009). In 2015, she was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. During her time at the John Curtin School of Medical Research she held the positions of Professor of Immunology and Director of the Centre for Personalised Immunology (CPI), an NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence.

Professor Vinuesa is now based in the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. carola.vinuesa@crick.ac.uk