Prof. Dr. Joachim Altschmied currently working as a Professor in Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Department of Biology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany. He served as Laboratory Head at IUF-Leibniz Institute for Environmental Medicine from 2008–2022. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Darmstadt University of Technology in 1988. His research topics mainly include molecular aging processes, redox regulation in the cardiovascular system; endothelial cell signaling, mitochondria vascular aging, compartment-specific protein functions.