Professor Landmesser has been Director of the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin at the Deutsche Herzzentrum der Charité since January 2023, and Director of the newly established Friede Springer Cardiovascular Prevention Center since June 2022. He was previously Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (from 2014 to 2022) and Medical Director of the Charité Center for Cardiovascular Medicine (from 2016 to 2022). He currently serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cardiology and has served as Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal, the leading cardiovascular journal in Europe, since 2008. He has a particular research interest in translational and clinical development of novel therapeutic and management strategies for the prevention and treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. He has authored more than 500 publications and has an H-index of 99. He has contributed to several ESC/EAS guidelines and EAS consensus papers. Since 2019 he has been named as a “Highly Cited Researcher”, in the top 1% of researchers most cited.