Dr Evan Williams is an early career nutritional biochemistry and immunology researcher within the Nutrition team (led by Prof. Wood) of the Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs at the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute. Since 2015, Dr Williams has performed laboratory based translational research alongside a clinically focused team working in the areas of nutrition, respiratory diseases, obesity and inflammation. Dr Williams current research is focused on investigating how obesity worsens outcomes in asthma with a particular interest in nutrition, inflammation and respiratory viral disease. His current postdoctoral role includes design, data collection, analysis and publication of basic and translation research projects.