Prof Patricia Barral obtained her PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the London Research Institute (UK). She is currently a Professor of Immunobiology at King’s College London where she leads the Centre for Inflammation Biology and Cancer Immunology, and a senior group leader at the Francis Crick Institute (London, UK). Her group’s interest is to understand the cellular mechanisms that initiate and shape immune responses, with a particular emphasis on studying the biology and function of unconventional T cells in health and disease.