Mariapia Degli-Esposti, PhD is a Professor at Monash University. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

At Monash University Mariapia heads the Experimental and Viral Immunology Group within the Infection and Immunity Program at the Biomedicine Discovery Institute and the Department of Microbiology as a NHMRC Leadership Fellow.

Mariapia’s laboratory studies viruses that cause lifelong infections as a way to unravel the pathways, interactions, and molecular mechanisms that determine the efficacy of immune responses. Her work has uncovered critical immunological pathways that shape immune efficacy and determine the outcomes of viral infection, including complications in autoimmunity and transplantation.