Rate My Professor Silvana Gaudieri

Professor Silvana Gaudieri serves as Professor and Head of the School of Human Sciences within the Faculty of Science at the University of Western Australia. She completed her PhD in Immunogenetics at the University of Western Australia in 1997. Possessing over 20 years of experience, her research examines host-viral interactions, with seminal studies on the adaptation of viruses including Hepatitis C Virus, Hepatitis B Virus, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus to immune responses at the population level. She has developed innovative high-throughput approaches for epitope discovery and immunophenotyping of T cell responses, securing funding from national and international sources. Professor Gaudieri has produced over 100 publications, garnering an h-index of 36 and more than 4,652 citations.

Her career includes prior roles at the Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Murdoch University, and as Research Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Key publications encompass "HIV-1 adapts to HLA class II–associated selection pressure exerted by CD4+ and CD8+ T cells" (Science Advances, 2025), "Epistatic interaction between ERAP2 and HLA modulates HIV-1 adaptation and disease outcome in an Australian population" (PLoS Pathogens, 2024), "Low-plastic diet and urinary levels of plastic-associated phthalates and bisphenols: the randomized controlled PERTH Trial" (Nature Medicine, 2026), and earlier influential works such as population-level analyses of HIV evolution. She has been awarded the NHMRC Howard Florey Centenary Research Fellowship and the Healy Fellowship from the Raine Medical Research Foundation. At UWA, she delivers undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in genetics, immunology, and biological anthropology, and has supervised over 30 Honours, Masters, and PhD students to completion, contributing substantially to viral immunology and immune adaptation research.