Anna Katrina Walduck is a professor and senior principal research fellow at Rural and Global Health, Charles Sturt University, Australia. She completed her Ph.D. in parasitology at the University of Queensland in 1995. Throughout her career, she has held various academic and industry positions, including an immunologist at Mallinckrodt Veterinary Ltd. (1996), a research officer at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (1998), a research fellow/group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie (2005), a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne (2011), an adjunct associate professor at James Cook University (2018), and an associate professor at RMIT University (2022). Her main expertise is in immunology, bacterial pathogenesis, and vaccine development. Her group pursues projects investigating a range of chronic and acute bacterial and parasitic infections.