Professor Esposito is Full Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Specialty School of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine and Director of the Pediatric Clinic of the University of Parma. She is President of the World Association for Infectious Diseases and Immunological Disorders (WAidid) (since 2014) and a member of the Steering Committee on Vaccination of the Italian Society of Pediatrics (since 2016). She was Chair of the Vaccine Study Group of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (2013–2021) and President of the Italian Society of Pediatric Infectious diseases from 2011– 2015. She won several postgraduate awards; she has been International Editor of The Paediatric Infectious Disease Journal (since 2005), Associate Editor of BMC Infectious Diseases (since 2009), Associate Editor of Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics (since 2010), Associate Editor of Journal of Clinical Virology (since 2012) and Editorial Board Member of PLOS One (since 2013). Professor Esposito’s research has focused on vaccines, respiratory tract infections, antiinfective therapy and emerging infections. Her research activities have led to the publication of more than 500 articles in international journals