Maximilien Evrard

Maximilien Evrard completed his Bachelor and Masters of Genetics degree from the University Paris Diderot (Paris 7), and obtained a Masters degree in Immunology from the Pasteur Institute in 2012. He was then awarded the Singapore International Graduate Award PhD scholarship (SINGA) to conduct his PhD work under the supervision of Dr Lai Guan Ng at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN). During his PhD, he studied behaviour and development of monocytes and neutrophils in the bone marrow, which lead to publications in multiple leading journals including The Journal of Experimental Medicine and Immunity. After completing his PhD in 2017, he joined Dr Laura Mackay’s as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. He now studies the development and function of tissue resident memory T cells in the context of infection, auto-immunity and cancer.