Prof. Dr. Jürgen Behr is the Head of the Department of Internal Medicine/Pulmonology at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. He is also the chief pulmonologist at the Asklepios specialist clinics in Munich-Gauting and co-director of the Comprehensive Pulmonology Center (CPC) in Munich. Prof. Dr. Behr received a Ph.D. degree in Medicine from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), München, Germany in 1987. Since 2013, he has been a Professor at the Department of Medicine and Pulmonology, Director of the Pulmonology Clinic of LMU, and since 2020, he has been a Consultant Professor at the Asklepios Medical Center for Pulmonary Diseases, Munich-Gauting. Since 2013, he has been the Chairman of Stiftung Atemweg, and Chairman of the Steering Committee of the German Respiratory Society (DGP) since 2002. Prof. Dr. Behr’s primary research interests include the treatment of bronchial asthma, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), interstitial lung diseases/pulmonary fibrosis, interventional pulmonology, lung transplantation, treatment of cystic fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, and thoracic oncology.