Manuel Wilbring was born in 1980 in Bonn, Germany. He studied medicine at the Medical Faculty of the Technical University, Dresden "Carl Gustav Carus" and began working as a cardiac surgeon in 2007 at the University Heart Center, Dresden. He has also worked at the University Heart Center in Hamburg, Germany, and Halle/Saale, Germany. Since 2018 he has worked as a consultant at the University Heart Center, Dresden.