Prof. Dr. Egbert Herting is a Professor in Pediatrics and Director of the University Children's Hospital, Lübeck, Germany. He studied medicine in Münster, Germany, and Cardiff, Wales, U.K., and graduated in 1984. He started his professional career in the Pediatric District Hospital of Minden, Westphalia, Germany, before he became a research fellow at Göttingen University in Northern Germany in 1985. He became a lecturer at Göttingen University in 1997, received a PhD degree in 1999 from the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and was appointed as an extraordinary professor at Göttingen University in 2002. In 2004, he was elected as professor and director of the University Children's Hospital in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany. In the last 20 years, his clinical research interest has focused on less invasive surfactant administration (LISA). He has 221 publications with more than 5300 citations (Scopus, 25 April 2024) and an h-index of 40. He is a member of various national and international societies, past president of the German Association for Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care (GNPI), and was congress president/council member of the German Society for Pediatrics (DGKJ). Currently, he is an advisor for the German Research Council (DFG). His main fields of research interest are surfactant deficiency and neonatal pulmonary and infectious disease.