Winfried Weissenhorn is a Professor of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at the University Grenoble Alpes, Director of the Institute of Structural Biology (IBS) in Grenoble, and Principal Investigator of a research group focusing on the structural biology of HIV-1 entry and cellular complexes recruited for budding. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1991 from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and performed his postdoctoral training in structural biology at Harvard University. From 1998 until 2006 he was part of the EMBL Grenoble as Group Leader in Structural Biology. In 2007, he was appointed as a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biology at University Grenoble Alpes and he directed a research group at the international mixed Unit of Virus Host Cell Interactions (UVHCI, UJF-CNRS-EMBL) until 2014. In 2015, he joined the Institute of Structural Biology in Grenoble. He received the Line Renaud award from the FRM (Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale en France) in 2011 and he is a senior member (appointment 2012) of the “Institut Universitaire de France”.