Prof. Dr. Hauke Busch is the Director of the Lübeck Institute of Experimental Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Germany, and head of the research group for Medical Systems Biology. He studied Physics at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, and at Trinity College Dublin. Prof. Busch received his PhD in 2004 from the Institute for Applied Physics at the Darmstadt University of Technology working in the field of non-linear dynamics on time series analysis and noise-induced pattern formation. After his PhD, he started his postdoctoral work at the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, where he led the group 'Applied Systems Biology' in the division of Prof. Roland Eils. His primary focus was on the development and simulation of protein signaling pathway models and gene regulatory networks. In addition, he is a member of the Steering Committee Excellence Cluster 2167 “Precision Medicine in Inflammation”, the Senate and Senate Committee for Medicine, University of Lübeck, and the Head of the Molecular Tumor Board, jointly with the Head of Oncology and Head of Pathology, University Clinic Schleswig-Holstein.