Dr Marlies Ostermann is a consultant in critical care and nephrology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Reader at King’s College London. She is also the Research and Delivery lead for Critical Care at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and has been appointed as a clinical co-lead for our NIHR BRC’s transplantation theme. In recognition of her role in the advancement of intensive care Marlies has recently been appointed as one of three new Directors of Research within the Intensive Care Society.

She is very active in research and collaborates with colleagues nationally and internationally and has a specialist interest in acute kidney injury (kidney failure) and critical care nephrology. Marlies is also committed to teaching and education, and strongly believes that science is for everybody.