Erin Tranfield obtained her PhD at the University of British Columbia (Canada), did a postdoc at NASA Ames Research Center (USA), and at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-HD, Germany). From May 2013 to February 2024, she built and managed the biological electron microscopy facility at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. Since March 2024, Erin has been the Head of the BioImaging Core at VIB in Ghent, Belgium. Erin has more than 25 years of biological electron microscopy experience with expertise in room temperature EM, cryo-immobilization, electron tomography, and CLEM, and has used all of these techniques in influenza A-infected samples and virus isolates.  She was the President of the Portuguese Microscopy Society 2019 - 2023, she co-chaired the ESA Topical Team on Celestial Dust Toxicity from 2018 - 2022, and she has been a member of the EMBL Alumni Board since 2020. Erin is part of numerous evaluation panels and editorial boards, including the Editorial Board of Wiley Analytical Science. In 2020, Erin founded the TechEM Seminar Series, which aims to bring advanced technical seminars to EM Facility staff all over Europe and Asia.  Erin received the 2023 Alan Agar Award for Electron Microscopy from the Royal Microscopy Society.