Susanne Sattler is tenure track Assistant Professor of Cardiac Immunobiology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria, and group leader at the National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College London, UK. Her international cardio-immunology team investigates the crosstalk between the adaptive immune system and the heart.

Susanne Sattler graduated in 2009 from the University of Vienna, Austria, after an interdisciplinary project at the crossroads between vascular biology and immunology. She subsequently moved to the Centre of Complement and Inflammation Research (CCIR) at Imperial College London, UK. There she developed a keen interest in the regulatory control of immune responses as well as autoimmunity as an inevitable consequence of lacking or aberrant regulatory processes.

Susanne has established a thriving Cardio-Immunology group at Imperial College London, UK. They recently showed the crucial role of the cross-priming DC-cytotoxic T cell axes in cardiac immunopathology. In 2023, Susanne took up a position as Assistant Professor of Cardiac Immunobiology at the Medical University in Graz, Austria, and now leads an international effort towards understanding and interrupting the vicious autoimmune-inflammatory loop leading to the deterioration of heart disease.