Professor Carolina Pohl is a National Research Foundation SARChI Research Chair holder in Pathogenic Yeasts in the Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her research group is especially interested in Candida albicans, Candida auris and Cryptococcus neoformans. Within this broad area she is interested in the role of lipids in host-pathogen interactions as well as the potential of lipids as antifungal molecules and drug targets. This focus is also expanded to include polymicrobial interactions, especially between pathogenic yeasts and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the implications of co-infection with yeasts and respiratory and enteric viruses.