Coziana Ciurtin is Professor of Rheumatology and Honorary Consultant in Adolescent and Adult Rheumatology at University College London (UCL), UK. She completed her medical and specialty training in Bucharest (Romania) and holds a MRes and a PhD degree from University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest and a MSc from University of Oxford, UK. Coziana looks after adolescents and young people with rheumatic diseases. She is passionate about identifying and tackling early the risk of irreversible complications associated with chronic inflammation (damage and cardiovascular risk), by working with gender and background-diverse young people. She leads a research group at UCL interested in understanding how puberty and sex can drive the risk of developing autoimmune conditions associated with significant female risk bias, such as lupus. Her lab research also focuses on novel multi-omic biomarkers predictive of long-term outcomes in young people with rheumatic disease, that can ultimately improve their management and outcomes. She is currently the Director of the FOCIS (Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies) Centre of Excellence for gender inclusive research in inflammation and immunity focused on childhood and adolescence (REINVENT) at UCL. She has recently been collaborating with Women in Data, Haleon and Kubrick looking at sex-bias in machine learning research in two autoimmune conditions that are more frequent in women, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, to highlight the need for better investment from the scientific community to ensure that data disaggregated by sex are reported adequately to tackle health inequalities. Coziana is the Research Coordinator of both the Lupus Working Party and Childhood Sjӧgren’s Interest Group of the Paediatric Rheumatology European Association (PReS) and EULAR (European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology) (EULAR) Paediatric Committee Adult Rheumatology Representative, aiming to contribute to collaborative projects in paediatric and adult rheumatology in Europe.