Dr Lidia Chitimia-Dobler is a parasitologist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology; Institute of Immunology, Infection and Pandemic Research, Munich, Germany and also functions as an assistant professor associated to the Institute of Experimental Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. Her specific interests and expertise include morphology and genetics of ticks and prevalence of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in European and African ticks, as well as in exotic imported ticks into Germany. Moreover, she is a world re-known specialist in the identification of fossil ticks from Burmese and Dominican amber, which is relevant for the understanding of tick origin and evolution. Her research on tick diversity puts a focus on better understanding of drivers for changes on the interaction of tick-host-environment and transmission of tick-borne pathogens. She has years of experience in fieldwork, collecting ticks from vegetation and wild and farm animals. Her main research interest on tick-borne pathogens (tick-borne encephalitis virus, Francisella spp., Rickettsia spp., and Babesia spp.) focuses in epidemiology in a one health context.