Eszter Tompa is a PhD student at the Department of Infection and Inflammation at Linköping University, Sweden. Their research interests are Lyme Borreliosis, tick-borne encephalitis, and other tick-borne pathogens. The PhD project involves the adaptation and evaluation of the FluoroSpot technique to analyze the T- and B-cell response to Lyme Borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis virus infection/vaccination respectively. Alongside their PhD studies, they are also involved in the AxBioTick study; a prospective study on the immune systems’ response to a tick bite in relation to pathogens, tick characteristics, host characteristics, and clinical outcomes in participants from the Aland Islands.