Prof. Dr. Holger Thiele is the Medical Director of the Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology at the Heart Center Leipzig at the University of Leipzig, which is one of the largest heart centers in Europe. He is a full professor of cardiology at the University of Leipzig. He is also the president of the German Cardiac Society. His main research interests are acute myocardial infarction, acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock, mechanical circulatory support, acute cardiovascular care, interventional cardiology, and structural heart disease. He has published over 950 articles in international scientific journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, Circulation, JACC, and the European Heart Journal with a cumulative impact factor of >10300, h-index 130. He has received multiple awards from the German Society of Cardiology and other organizations.