Dr. Katharina Lahl is a mucosal immunologist with a focus on neonatal humoral immunity to commensal microbiota and intestinal viruses. Since 2023, Dr. Lahl is an Associate Professor atthe Department for Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Calgary in Canada. She previously held a split position at Lund University in Sweden and at The Danish Technical University in Denmark. Dr. Lahl received prestigious research awards such as the Ragnar Söderberg Fellowship in Medicine in Sweden and the Lundbeck Fellowship in Denmark for her work on mucosal dendritic cell subsets and their role in the orchestration of adaptive immunity in response to viral infections. In 2024, Dr. Lahl received the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Mucosal Immunology in part for her efforts in establishing network opportunities for young professionals within the Society.