After completing her medical studies, Chiara Romagnani specialized in oncology at the Italian National Cancer Institute. In 2006, she completed her doctorate at the University of Genoa (Italy) and came to Berlin as a postdoctoral fellow of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). In 2009, she became Professor of Immunology with a focus on inflammation (Immunology of Inflammation) at the Medical Clinic for Gastroenterology, Infectiology and Rheumatology at Charité in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin (DRFZ). In this role, she headed the Innate Immunity Research Group and the Leibniz ScienceCampus Chronic Inflammation. From 2017 to 2020, she held a Heisenberg Professorship at the Charité. Since 2020 she is Professor of Medical Immunology at Charité and Director of the Institute of Medical Immunology, which bridges the gap between basic and clinical research.

Prof. Romagnani is a member of the Advisory Board of the German Society for Immunology (DGfI) and is Chief Editor of the European Journal of Immunology (EJI).