Sabine Piller

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Sabine Piller, born 8 January 1970 in Vienna, is a professor of medical research at Western Sydney University and the senior research officer of the HIV Protein Functions Group at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research. She grew up in a working‑class family and developed an early love of science. She studied physics, chemistry, biology, and microbiology at the University of Vienna. With Austrian support, she moved to the United States to earn a Master of Science in marine physiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she studied crab species and how they tolerate different salinities. She then completed her PhD at the Australian National University with Peter Gage and Graeme Cox, researching HIV proteins as ion channels; this work suggested a link to HIV‑related dementia. After postdoctoral work at the Centre for AIDS Research in Birmingham focusing on gp41, she taught at the University of South Wales and was a visiting fellow at the John Curtin School of Medical Research. Today she leads research at Western Sydney University (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences) and is an adjunct in its School of Medicine, while also heading the HIV Protein Functions Group at Westmead Institute for Medical Research.