Menno van Zelm obtained his PhD studies from the Erasmus University (2002-2007). He held postdoc positions at the University of California San Diego (USA) and the Erasmus MC (the Netherlands), prior to becoming Lab Head at the Erasmus MC (2010). Since 2015, he heads the Allergy and Clinical Immunology laboratory from Monash University and the Alfred Hospital, where he founded the JMF Research and Diagnostic Center for Immunodeficiency Diseases in Melbourne, and was Deputy Head of Department (2017-2023). He was recruited to Erasmus MC in 2023 to head the Humoral Immune Memory laboratory. He is currently responsible for the careers of 14 people with research lines into Allergy, Primary Immunodeficiency and Vaccination Responses. Dr. van Zelm has received continuous research grant support in the Netherlands and Australia. In 2010, he received the Heineken Young Scientists Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Menno van Zelm has published >180 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and is named inventor on multiple patent applications.