DrLuisa Monteiro de Miranda

Luisa is graduated with a Veterinary degree from the Federal Fluminense University, Brazil, in 2007 and completed a master's and PhD studies on Clinical Research in Infectious Diseases, at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Brazil, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. She developed her pos-doctoral study at University of Zürich, Switzerland from 2013 to 2015, and was employed as a Research Fellow (young talent researcher) at Fiocruz, Brazil, until 2017. Luisa worked for more than ten years with animal sporotrichosis, with special emphasis on immunological and pathological aspects, and was also an active research collaborator and a pathologist in a referral centre for infectious diseases surveillance at Fiocruz, Brazil. Luisa has joined the University of Sydney in 2020 as a lecturer of Veterinary Pathology and keeps working on her favourites research subjects: fungal diseases and host-pathogen interactions.

Dr Luisa Monteiro de Mirand is a member of Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute (Sydney ID).