Melanie Greter received her PhD at the University of Zurich from the Institute of Neuroimmunology in 2007. After her postdoctoral fellowship in Miriam Merad’s lab at the Mount-Sinai School of Medicine in New York, she moved back to Zurich to establish her own group. In 2013, she was awarded an SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) professor in the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich and since 2020 she is an associate professor at the same institute. Melanie and her group are interested in the development, regulation and function of mononuclear phagocytes in health and disease, with a particular focus on tissue-resident macrophages.