Carlota Dobaño, PhD, is associate research professor and head of the Malaria Immunology Group at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). She conducts her research at the Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM). She coordinates large multi-center studies on immunity to malaria vaccine candidates and immune responses to Plasmodium parasites in vulnerable populations. She has more than 86 peer-reviewed publications in major international journals. She earned a master’s degree at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh based on field work in Blantyre, Malawi. From 1999–2002, she was a postdoctoral fellow on malaria vaccine development at the Malaria Program, Naval Medical Research Center in the US before joining the Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB) at ISGlobal in 2003.