Professor Chalmers is a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician at the University of Dundee. He is chair of the European Bronchiectasis Registry (EMBARC) and leads multicentre studies in COPD and pneumonia. He is associate editor of the European Respiratory Journal and a member of the editorial board of the Lancet Respiratory Medicine. His group works on the interaction between neutrophils and bacteria in the lung with the aim of developing novel therapies and diagnostics for acute and chronic respiratory infections.