Catia Cillóniz, PhD, FERS is Senior Sientific at the Pneumology Department, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at University of Barcelona, Spain. She is currently the coordinator of the research line “Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)”, which is part of the research group on Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases. Her current field of expertise is the study of pneumonia in all its facets and in all the areas in which research has furthered our understanding of this infectious disease.