Raffaella Morganti is a senior astronomer at the Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy and is affiliated with the University of Groningen as a professor. She works on radio AGN and, in particular, on the gas content and properties of these objects in relation to their evolution and life-cycle. This has been the focus of her project “RadioLife: Exploiting new radio telescopes to understand the role of AGN in galaxy evolution” which was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (see also http://astron.nl/~morganti).