Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Johannes Ludwig Waltenberger, F.E.S.C. currently serves as Professor of Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Vascular Medicine at the University of Muenster and as chief of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Vascular Medicine, Pneumonology and Intensive Care Medicine at SRH Central Hospital Suhl. He serves as editor-in-chief for European Journal of Medical Research, as associate editor of the Netherlands Heart Journal and on the editorial boards of several other Journals. He served as Councillor in the ESC-Board in 2008-2010 and is the current chair of the Council for Basic Cardiovascular Sciences of the ESC and serves as topic coordinator for basic science in the Congress Program Committee of the ESC. He was reviewer for 116 different scientific journals and for 70 organizations. He counts more than 260 scientific publications, 2 patents and has supervised 9 PhD theses and 24 MD theses. His scientific work was quoted more than 15.000 times and his Hirsch index is 61.