Rohini Chopra Dewasthaly is a faculty member at the Institute of Microbiology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria. She received her Master of Science degree in Microbiology from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India, and a PhD degree from the Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, for her research on yeast genetics and molecular biology at CSIR-IMTech, Chandigarh, India. In 2018, she obtained her Habilitation (venia docendi) in Molecular Microbiology and her current research focuses on deciphering the pathogenicity and virulence mechanisms of mycoplasmas. Dr. Chopra Dewasthaly has served as an editorial member and reviewer for several internationally reputed journals and funding agencies, as well as an active member of international organizations and scientific committees.