Elvira Mass studied biology at the University of Bonn and did her PhD thesis at the Life and Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES) in Bonn. In 2014, she moved to Frederic Geissmann's laboratory at King's College in London and followed him a few months later to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. From there she returned to the LIMES Institute in Bonn in 2017 as a group leader. In 2019, she became Associate Professor for "Integrated Immunology" at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. In 2020, she switched to back to the LIMES Institute, and was tenured as a full professor in 2022. In 2019 Elvira was awarded an ERC Starting Grant to work on the impact of micro- and nanoplastics on macrophage functions. She has also received several awards, including the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers in 2021 and the EMBO YIP award in 2022 for her work on macrophage biology.

Seminar topic: Developmental Programming of Tissue-Resident Macrophages