Carolina Wählby is professor in Quantitative Microscopy at the Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala University, and Scientific Director of the National SciLifeLab Bioimage Informatics facility. Her research lies in the intersection between life science and computational image analysis, developing image analysis, deep learning, and visualization approaches for understanding dynamics of cancer tissue, antibiotics susceptibility and spatial transcriptomics, funded primarily by the ERC and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic research. She has a MSc in molecular biotechnology and a PhD in digital image analysis, and carried out postdoc research within genetics and pathology. She was part of the Imaging Platform of the Broad Institute 2009-2015, developing CellProfiler, and became full professor at Uppsala University in 2014. She pioneered the fields of spatial transcriptomics and multiplexed proteomics, received the SBI2 President’s innovation award in 2014, and the Thuréus prize in 2015 and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. She is a member of the steering group of a 300M€ effort on Data Driven Life Science, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, with the ambitious goal of training the next generation of life scientists.