Barbara Schraml obtained her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. In the lab of Ken Murphy she worked on the transcriptional regulation of T cell differentiation. In 2009 she received an EMBO long term postdoc fellowship to study dendritic cell biology in the group of Caetano Reis e Sousa at the London Research Institute. There, she developed the first mouse model to fate map dendritic cells based on cellular origin that helped establish dendritic cells as independent hematopoietic lineage. In 2014, Barbara started her lab in Munich funded by an Emmy-Noether grant (German Research Foundation) and a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. Since 2017 Barbara holds a W2 Professorship “Cells in inflammation”, at the Institute for Immunology, Biomedical Center of LMU, where she serves as an elected Board member. She is a member of the organization committee of the Ettal Spring School for Immunology (German Society of Immunology) and the steering committee for International Dendritic Cell Symposia. Barbara Schraml has long-standing expertise in studying dendritic cell development and function in the context of tissue microenvironments and contributed to a proposal for a unified nomenclature for mononuclear phagocytes.