Priv. Doz. Dr. Christiane Weissenbacher-Lang is employed as a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Pathology, Vetmeduni Vienna and is leading the working group in Molecular Pathology. She studied Veterinary Medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, and graduated in 2003. She worked at the University Clinic for Swine for eight years and transferred to the Institute of Pathology in 2011. She has specialized in the infectious diseases of pigs, clinical laboratory diagnostics, molecular pathological methods, phylogeny, and statistics. In 2012, she started to focus on Pneumocystis spp. She has successfully applied for seven research grants, two of which as FWF grants entitled “Molecular epidemiology of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. suis in Austrian pig herds” (P 31370-B29) and “Cell culture for in vitro growth of Pneumocystis suis” (P 36486-B). She received the Kardinal Innitzer Award for her post-doctoral thesis on porcine and canine pneumocystosis.