Birgitta Henriques-Normark is professor and senior consultant physician in clinical bacteriology at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University hospital.

Her research focuses on respiratory tract infections, especially pneumococcal diseases. The approach is translational going from basic mechanisms of pathogenesis to epidemiological and clinical studies. New antimicrobial therapies and novel vaccine candidates are being identified.  She has had several leadership appointments at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, and at Karolinska Institutet, such as Department head, Vice dean for recruitments, and academic Vice president for research.  She is an elected member of the European Academy and Microbiology (EAM), American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and is part of the Nobel assembly at Karolinska Institutet. She has got awards such as Wallenberg Clinical Scholars, the Petterkofer Award, Prix Aboensis Prize, and Torsten Söderberg Academy professorship.

She is Vice president of EASAC (European Academies´ Science Advisory Council), and since July 2022, she is the President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.