Torsten Zuberbier is currently the Director of the Institute for Allergy Research IFA, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and the Director of Immunology and Allergology, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology (ITMP). His career began in 1990 at the Virchow Klinikum Free University of Berlin, where he later became a senior physician in the Department of Dermatology in 1995. Since 2003, he has been the head of the European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation (ECARF), Berlin. Since 2004, he has been the President of the Global Allergy and Asthma Excellence Network. Since 2014, he has been the spokesperson for the Comprehensive Allergy Center Charité (CACC), Charité. His research experience is in the domain of human mast cell differentiation and function, as well as in clinical allergology, with a focus on urticaria and food and inhalant allergies.