Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl is MD, professor for Virology and is head of the Center for Virology of the Medical University Vienna. During her scientific career, she has published numerous publications, reviews and book chapters in the field of clinical and translational virology, with a particular emphasis on persistent human viruses. Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl was president of the „European Society of Clinical Virology“ and vice-president of the Austrian AIDS society. She was and is board and council member of various national and international societies and member of expert and advisory groups on different aspects of human virology. Since 2021 she is member of the Supreme Medical Council of Austria.