Tomas Holubec graduated in 2004 as a medical doctor from the Charles University, in Prague, Medical Faculty in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. In 2014, he received his PhD degree from the same university. After finishing his residency in cardiac surgery in 2012, Tomas became a board-certified cardiac surgeon. After collecting experience at renowned institutions such as University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland and Kerckhoff Klinik, Bad Nauheim, Germany. Since 2018, he has been a deputy director of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University Hospital, Frankfurt, and an associate professor (since 2019) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany. His areas of clinical and research interests are minimally invasive cardiac surgery, valve-sparing operations, complex aortic surgery, and coronary revascularization, especially off-pump.