Cornelia Lass-Flörl is the Director of the Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology of the Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Virology at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria. She has specialised in the field of medical microbiology since graduating from the Faculty of Medicine at Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck in 1986. She is Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology and of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Professor Lass-Flörl has authored several journal articles, abstracts, and book chapters. In 2020, 2022 and 2023 she was placed on Clarivate Analytics’ list of highly cited researchers worldwide.
Her teaching and clinical service responsibilities focus on the diagnosis of fungal infections in severely immunocompromised patients, with special interests in the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of fungal infections. In addition, Professor Lass-Flörl’s work includes antifungal susceptibility testing and the interaction of fungi and platelets.
She is an esteemed member of the sub-committee on Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and the European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) and was chair of the executive board of the European Fungal Infection Study Group (EFISG).
She was Chair of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM) Subcommittee for the Evaluation of ECMM Excellence Centers.