Pandemics and Alertness member WG3 (Complementary and enabling techniques), LINXS Fellow

Head of Systems Virology Group, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Joakim Esbjörnsson has for the last 19 years developed a research profile that combines expertise in molecular virology, bioinformatics and immunology. After doctoral studies at Lund University (LU), and postdoctoral studies at the Katholieke Universiteit and University of Oxford, he returned to LU in 2016 to set up his own research team focusing on molecular virus epidemiology and understanding how virus-host interactions determine pathogenesis using different bioinformatics and systems virology approaches. His career development have been supported by Vetenskapsrådet (international postdoctoral grant, establishment grant, and consolidator grant), Swedish Society for Medical Research, SciLifeLab, the European Commission, Lund University (multiple internal grants and a tenured position from associate senior lecturer to full Professor since 2016), other funds. He has >70 scientific publications, whereof the majority is as either first or senior author. Major original articles as first or senior author include publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Communications, Lancet HIV, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and Frontiers in Immunology. Other acknowledgements include being ranked as top 1% of HIV-2 researchers in the world, initiator and coordinator of the Lund University Virus Centre (LUVC), member of Vetenskapsrådets reference group for the national research program on virus and pandemics, member of the SciLifeLab DDLS Research School Management group, coordinator of the LU cooperation initiative on Pandemics and alertness, coordinator of the research and innovation dimension of the European University alliance EUGLOH 2.0 (including nine universities), and invitations to numerous scientific conferences as keynote speaker. He has been the main supervisor of nine postdocs/research fellows, three PhD students that successfully defended their theses, and co-supervisor of 8 PhD students that successfully defended their theses.