Julian A. Hiscox is Chair in Infection and Global Health. He has a BSc in Genetics from University College London (1991) and a PhD in Virology from the University of Reading (1994). He completed post-doctoral training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA) and the Institute for Animal Health (Compton, UK). In 1999 he was appointed as a Lecturer in Virology at the University of Reading and then moved to the University of Leeds in 2003 where he was subsequently a Senior Lecturer and Reader in Virology. In 2012 he was recruited to the University of Liverpool.