Scientia Professor Katharina Gaus is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales and Head of the EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science. She is also the Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, and the NSW Node leader of EMBL Australia. In 1999, Kat received her PhD from the University of Cambridge and she has led an independent research group since 2005. Her group investigates signal transduction processes with advanced fluorescence microscopy approaches. She was awarded the NH&MRC Achievement Award (Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship, 2014 – 2018), the Khwarizmi International Award (2018), the New South Wales Science and Engineering Award for Excellence in Biological Sciences (2013), and the Gottschalk Medal from the Australian Academy of Science (2012).