Speakers

Dr Rivino holds an Integrated Master’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Milan (Milan, Italy). She completed a PhD in Immunology at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Bellinzona, Switzerland) focusing on the mechanisms underpinning the generation and maintenance of human memory T cells. During her post-doctoral training in Singapore at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Duke-NUS Medical School she became interested in the role of T cells in virus infections of clinical importance. Dr Rivino was appointed Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS in 2016. In 2019 she joined the University of Bristol (Bristol, UK) as Senior Lecturer and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. In April 2026 she joined the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine as Reader of Immunology. Her team studies anti-viral immunity in human infection and vaccination, with a focus on dengue and zika.