Dr. Lindi Masson (née Roberts) is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is also an Associate Member of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Honorary Scientist of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa. She has been involved in HIV research for over 10 years, investigating the immunological factors associated with HIV infection risk and disease progression in women. Since her seminal finding that inflammation in the female reproductive tract is associated with increased HIV acquisition risk, Dr. Masson’s research has focused on understanding the causes and consequences of this inflammation and development of strategies to identify women with subclinical inflammation. Dr. Masson completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cape Town in 2012, followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. In 2014 she received a prestigious South African National Research Foundation Career Advancement award and began her career as an independent researcher. Since then, she has received multiple research grants from local and international funding agencies, including two National Institutes of Health RO1 awards and a Carnegie Emerging Academic Leaders award. She has published 35 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, three of which have been cited over 100 times, eight cited over 50 times. She has hosted one postdoctoral fellow, two Honours students, two international interns and is currently supervising four Ph.D. and Master’s students and co-supervising five other postgraduate students.
