Dr Wibawa is an early career researcher (ECR) who specializes in pulmonary host-pathogen interaction. She completed a PhD in Microbiology at the University of Melbourne in 2021, where she collaboratively created and characterized the in-house library of Legionella pneumophila (Lp) mutants. She currently leads the Lp mutant library project at Professor Elizabeth Hartland lab in Hudson Institute of Medical Research, in which she trained 3 PhD students and supervised 4 undergraduate students.