Diana S. Hansen completed her PhD studies in 1998 at the University of Buenos Aires in the context of a collaborative program between the National Institute for Chagas Disease in Argentina and the National Veterinary Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. She turned to malaria research during her postdoctoral training at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, where she established a program to investigate inflammatory responses responsible for the induction of severe malaria. Diana is now a Laboratory Head at the Department of Microbiology, Monash University. Her main research interests include mechanisms of pathogenesis and immunity to malaria, and she is pursuing those goals using infection models as well as humans studies.