Dr. Chiara Lauri graduated in Medicine and Surgery from “Sapienza” University of Rome (full marks cum laude) in 2010. In 2018, she also completed her residency in Nuclear Medicine at “Sapienza” University of Rome (full marks cum laude). From 2019 to today, she has been employed at the Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, “Sapienza” University of Rome, with a research grant. She is currently completing her PhD thesis at the University Medical Centre of Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands. In 2021, she obtained national eligibility for Associate Professor. She is the Guideline Representative of the “Inflammation & Infection Committee” of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) and Secretary of the “Inflammation & Infection Study Group” of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine (AIMN). She is involved as first author in the publication of joint guidelines on diabetic foot infection with EANM, the European Society of Radiology (ESR), and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), and on vascular graft infections with EANM and the European Society of Vascular Surgery (ESVS). From 2010 to 2021, she published more than 30 papers, mainly focused on imaging infection and inflammation with a particular interest in diabetic foot and vascular graft infections, as well as five book chapters.