Prof. Michaela Lackner

Prof. Michaela Lackner is a University Professor at the Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology (HMM) at the Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI, Innsbruck, Austria), which is an ECMM Excellent Center. Since 2017, she has headed the Mycological Research Group at the HMM. She completed both her Master's and her PhD in natural sciences with distinction at the University of Innsbruck (LFU) in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Since 2007, she has had a strong interest in fungal pathogens, particularly in the development of novel diagnostic tools and in understanding antifungal azole resistance mechanisms. She is a FECMM member, ECFS fungal pathogens working group co-coordinator, member of the FPCRI expert board, leading the clinical translational working party on Mucorales, and convenor of the ECMM-ISHAM working group on Pseudallescheria/Scedosporium infections and the ISHAM working group of ISHAM Working Group Nomenclature of Clinical Fungi.