Professor Dr. Annette Peters is the Director of the Institute of Epidemiology. She served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the German National Cohort, NAKO e.V. from 2018 to 2022. In 2019, she became a Member of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group on "Air Pollution & Health". She is a distinguished awardee of the John Goldsmith Award for achievements in the field of environmental epidemiology, given by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology in 2019. She was also recognized as the President of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology from 2012 to 2013 and awarded the Johann-Peter-Süßmilch medal GMDS by the Society for Medical Statistics, Biometrics and Epidemiology, Germany, in 2005. Her research is focused on population-based cohort studies; the health impacts of air pollution and other environmental factors; interactions of genetics, epigenetics, and the environment; chronic diseases such as diabetes, CVD, and lung disease; and new approaches to define intermediate phenotypes.